Glendale's bear took swim in La Crescenta this morning

Sheriff's at the La Crescenta station say a resident in the Briggs Terrace area reported the bear with the orange ear tag, presumably the one spotted earlier this year in the Glendale area, although it's unclear why the bears are thought to be the same. This morning it was dripping wet so the resident surmised it had just left the home's swimming pool. The bear returned to the chaparral above La Crescenta without incident, the reports say.

Bad news could be looming, though. The LA Times says that a Department of Fish and Game spokesman said last week that if the bear with a hankering for meatballs keeps returning to the populated streets along the foothills, it likely will be caught and taken to a shelter in Northern California before being moved to Colorado. “We’re hopeful that if we can capture him in a safe way, we will place him in a facility for the rest of his life,” Andrew Hughan said last week.

I have no idea why a bear from California's black bear gene pool would have to be taken to a refuge in Colorado. But there you go.

DFG file photo of the Glendale bear