Bear Asleep In Pizza Shop? Sleepy Bear Cub Takes Nap In Colorado Pizzeria


On Monday, September 14, a shocking discovery was made in a Colorado pizza shop. Apparently, a sleepy bear cub had made his way inside the pizzeria, where he settled down for an afternoon nap.

Colorado Springs Police Department spokeswoman Catherine Buckley said Blanca Caro, the Colorado Springs police school resource officer at Palmer High School, was told there was a bear cub roaming near the school. When she went to check out the situation, she was flagged down by the employees of Louie’s Pizza, who informed her that a bear was inside their nearby restaurant on North Tejon Street, according to the Gazette.

The presence of the bear almost put the school on lockdown, but it was later determined that there was no threat to the students as it had made its way into the pizzeria and away from the high school.

“I started heading west on Boulder and that’s when I got flagged down by an employee at Louie’s Pizza,” Caro said.

The bear cub was originally seen in the area of East Boulder Street and North Nevada Avenue. Apparently, it smelled the pizza coming from the shop and wandered in through an open door. The cub then proceeded to enter the restaurant’s prep room, where he ate some icing used for Louie’s cini-bread and then curled up on the second shelf of a storage rack. The Springs Police later shared a photo of the sleeping bear on their Twitter page.

Sawyer Janney, an employee at Louie’s Pizza, said he was startled when all the commotion started, but it wasn’t the bear that startled him. Rather, it was one of his fellow employees that found the bear.

“He just yells ‘bear’ and runs outside,” Janney said.

Louie Sciarotta, the founder of the pizza shop, said by the time the officers with Parks & Wildlife showed up, the bear cub was sound asleep on the shelf.

“He (the Parks & Wildlife officer) went back to that corner, woke her up and then tranquilized her,” Caro said.

According to Matt Robbins, a spokesman with Parks & Wildlife, the bear appeared to be malnourished and had an open wound on one of its paws. Robbins said the wound was treated, and then the bear was taken to a rehabilitation facility to recover.

“If we get that weight up and the wound heals, it will go back into the wild,” Robbins said.

Caro said that they have not received any sightings of the mama bear in the area, which is a good thing for the Colorado citizens.

[Photo via Twitter]

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