Bear Takes up Residence Under Monrovia Home

Brown bear cubs play with their mother, at a wildlife park on April 27, 2007, in Poing, Germany, on April 27, 2007. Johannes Simon/Getty Images

MONROVIA, Calif.—A bear, possibly pregnant, has taken up residence under a house in Monrovia and may give birth soon.

Jerry Shutman told City News Service he was awakened by his barking dog Monday morning, Dec. 13, and saw a bear, accompanied by her cub, “tearing up the grass and some of the plants that were nearby” in the backyard of his home in the 700 block of Oakglade Drive.