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Updated: 10:52 AM Jul 24, 2008
Bear sighting in Grovetown
No one has been injured during the bear sightings but it certainly has taken a lot of people by surprise.
Posted: 10:24 AM Jul 24, 2008Reporter: Melissa Tune Email Address: melissa.tune@wrdw.com |
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News 12 at 11 o'clock, July 23, 2008
GROVETOWN, Ga.---A Grovetown family spotted a cub on Tuesday evening, right outside in their backyard. This is the third bear sighting in the past two weeks in the Augusta area.
Thirteen-year Victor "Ty" Peterson was looking outside the kitchen window of his Grovetown home noticed the little cub.
"When I looked out the window, he was sitting right there eating something. I don't know what he was eating,"says Ty Peterson.
The young boy's father was nearby in another room. The teenager called out to his father to come and take a look.
" We eased out to try to get the picture, " says Victor Peterson." He ran away, so I opened the door and took the picture."
Victor Peterson, Sr. is no stranger to bears. He saw a few of them when he lived in North Carolina. But the experience was all new for his children and his wife.
"He called me from work and said, baby, the bear is in our backyard. He's sitting on your flowers and I said noooo!!"laughs Janet Peterson.
Janet's daughter Brionna didn't see the bear but she's a bit nervous about letting Peebles, her little dog out alone now.
"I'm more scared for my dog. I don't want to take him out without a leash, "says Brionna Peterson.
The Peterson's subdivision is new and the backyard overlooks beautiful woods. But now they're wondering what might be back in those trees. So, they're going to take steps to keep away the bears - at least from their backyard.
"Soon as I get my grass growning back, then I'm gonna throw up the fence," says Victor Peterson.
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