A curious black bear sauntered right on up to a New Hampshire home and rang the doorbell before wandering over to explore a nearby hot tub in adorable surveillance footage released by the homeowners.
The bear looked around the patio in the yard before poking its snout at the Ring doorbell, sniffing it appraisingly.
Then, the cub stood up on its hind legs and pressed its clawed paw against the doorbell, peering inside the nearby window as if expecting the residents to answer.
The bear staggered backwards when the doorbell rang, eyeing it for a moment before pivoting back around to explore the rest of the patio.
It stood up straight again once it spotted the hot tub and placed its paws right on the cover, jabbing it with its snout.
When the cover didn’t budge, the bear seemingly surrendered and wandered deeper into the vast yard.
“At least he was polite enough to ring the doorbell to see if we were home,” resident Jay Lievens wrote on Facebook.
Black bears are extremely common in New Hampshire, with an estimated population of around 5,000, according to the state’s Fish and Game Department.
They are largely docile creatures, and not a single person has been killed by one in New Hampshire since 1784, according to the department. They are still, of course, dangerous predators with razor sharp teeth, so people are still advised to keep their distance.
In April, similar home security footage captured a playful bear exploring a child’s playground and taking a ride down the slide in Connecticut.
In North Carolina, one man scared off a bear poking around his front yard by donning a shoddy bear costume of his own.
Meanwhile, a bear cub in New Jersey scaled a second-floor balcony while his friends were digging through a nearby dumpster, when the resident accidentally let their dog out. The ferocious protector of the home rushed forward and started to bark at the cub, who rushed back down to the ground in record time before scampering away into the woods.
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