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The adventure to help the little cub began on Thursday, July 1, when the department received a call from a resident in Greene County in the hamlet of Round Top about a black bear cub with what appeared to be a bucket stuck on its head.
An officer responded to the location, but the cub had wandered into a nearby wooded area by the time he arrived.
Over the course of the next several days, the officer received multiple calls and text messages from nearby residents, including a photograph of the cub perched on a tree trunk with a plastic chicken feeder on its head, an object unlikely to break apart or fall off without intervention, the department said.
On Saturday, July 10, the officer received a call from a resort manager in Round Top who located the cub in a wooded area.
EOC officers, along with a state trooper responded and finally located the scampy little cub who was accompanied by additional cubs and a sow, a female bear, that was presumably its mom.
Officers managed to get mom out of the way and formulated a plan to remove the object by using a catchpole to secure the cub and then cut and removed the chicken feeder without injuring him.
The cub was released back to the sow without injury.
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