Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/19/bear-takes-a-dip-in-human-fami.html
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At 18s it looks like it could be the model for the bear on the California flag.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg
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So… are those fences there to look pretty or to keep children out of the pool area?
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It’s a grizzly on our flag. That’s a black bear in the pool.
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This post needs a “delightful creatures” tag 
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If it were my pool, I’d let him have at it. I bet the fur-coat animals are suffering enough in this heat.
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Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica.
Gave it three stars on yelp. Comfy, temperature was nice, but no fish.
Live bear jacuzzi goodness…
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Does that bear know how much pee is in that pool?
I’ll wager not!
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Does that bear know how much pee is in that pool?
I’ll wager not!
The bear replies, “A little more now than there was when I got in…”
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Hey! It gets hot in all that fur!
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“Do bears pee in the pool?”
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He had to swim in a human family’s pool, bear families don’t have pools.
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I grew up near there, and I probably saw a bear once a year. I don’t think people associate Los Angeles County with wildlife, but the whole basin is surrounded by reasonably large and rugged tracts of wilderness, with mountain heights well over 2000 m (the tallest topping out at 3500 m).
Lots of deers, bears, coyotes, cougars, and all kinds of interesting birds, insects, spiders, reptiles, and plants.
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Maybe the bear knows how to use the child safe latch.
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bb, that’s for “bathing bear” is it not?
I can’t speak from a bear’s perspective but to let go in the water is very satisfying if not a socially responsible act unless you are in the ocean or river!
Pee away great bear, pee away
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Where does a bear go swimming?
Wherever the fuck it wants.
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I live in the next town over from Arcadia, and we’ve got a long proud history of swimming bears here. One in particular became a local legend, and there are fiberglass statues of him all over town:
Also, when @Brainspore was here visiting recently he ran into this guy on a scooter ride just a couple blocks from my house:
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