One bear cub’s curiosity caused a hilarious surprise for a Florida family.
Naples resident Rachel Werthem went to check her front door’s Ring camera at 2 a.m. and saw a bear cub staring into the camera, licking the doorknob, and then fleeing the scene.
“I turned to my husband, I said, ‘Are you expecting someone?’ Not knowing it was 2 a.m., but he wasn’t expecting someone. And definitely not a baby bear,” Werthem told Gulf Coast News.
The what looked to be a black bear cub apparently wandered away from its mother, perhaps because its mom did not approve of ding-dong ditching Werthem’s house at that late hour.
“I assume that when they approached the front walkway, the doorbell lit up and maybe he was playing or thought it was funny, and he came in, licked and sniffed the doorbell. Definitely not a source of food,” Werthem added.
Rachel Werthem: Well, the doorbell rang at 2 a.m., and we were fast asleep. But when it rang, it woke us up.Anchor: Naples has a new door-to-door visitor, but this one isn’t selling anything. A bear wandered right up to a home’s Ring camera, licked it, then decided to ring and… pic.twitter.com/jbldLK97jj
— corgi (@wordsdematthew) November 12, 2026Collier County, Florida (where Naples is located), was estimated to have over 1,000 black bears in 2015, and sightings and encounters are common.
But most of these sightings take place during the daytime and aren’t through a Ring camera.
The black bear cub and its mother were likely out looking for food, which they spend about 20 hours per day doing at this time of year. This would also explain why the cub decided to kick the doorknob in an attempt to see whether it was edible.
The cub did not stick around long after realizing its food-foraging foray was futile.
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