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Bear Steals Oreos From Monrovia Home: Video
Video has captured a bear or bears repeatedly stealing oreos and nabbing a chocolate cake from a refrigerator, according to reports.
![Packages of Nabisco Oreo cookies line a shelf in a market in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. At least one bear in Monrovia has developed a fondness for the sweet treat.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/920517/20240529/044848/styles/patch_image/public/screen-shot-2024-05-29-at-31145-pm___29164559703.png)
MONROVIA, CA — Residents of a Monrovia neighborhood have named a local bear Oreo, after its snack of choice, according to reports.
A bear was spotted leaving a house on Canyon Crest Drive with a package of the iconic cookies in its mouth, KABC reported. The animal ripped off a window screen in its efforts to get to the sweet treats, according to KTLA.
Also in recent days, a bear — unclear if it was the same one — broke into a car to get to groceries, including Oreos, reported the outlets, both of which published footage of the bear or bears in action.
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“That’s why we named him Oreo,” resident Vina Khoury told KTLA. “He’s not just roaming around. He’s actually going into the houses. So now, it’s a very scary thing to leave a window open or your backyard door open or anything.”
Khoury has encountered a bear with a sweet tooth before, after one entered her garage last year and took a chocolate cake from her refrigerator, according to KABC.
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Bears typically avoid confrontation with humans, but, if given access to human food or garbage, they can lose caution, cause damage and become a threat, so it is important never to feed a bear, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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