Adorable moment rescue puppy Daisy rings bell to alert her owners to family of bears swimming in backyard pool so that she can join them
When a family of bears went for a swim in a suburban pool, eager rescue pup Daisy put her training to use and rang a doorbell to alert her owners so that she could join them.
Daisy, a seven-month-old rescue pup, had recently mastered the skill of ringing a small bell to alert owners Tiffany and Kevin Kress when she wanted to go outside their home in Sierra Madre, California.
Four weeks ago, Tiffany posted video of Daisy ringing the bell over and over while whining softly as she watched a momma bear with two cubs playing in the swimming pool out back.
'So, we bell trained our dog,' said Tiffany in the video, laughing. 'But I don't think she can go out right now.'
Tiffany told DailyMail.com that she thought her dog was trying to get permission to go play with the animals, rather than trying to warn her of their presence.
'She actually wasn't warning us because we saw them coming and grabbed her and went inside,' she said.
'Kevin bell trained her to let us know when she needs to use the bathroom but she rings it all day whenever she wants to go out and play.'
Daisy, a seven-month-old rescue pup, had recently mastered the skill of ringing a small bell to alert owners Tiffany and Kevin Kress when she wanted to go outside their home in Sierra Madre, California
Daisy continues to whine as she and her family watch the two cubs playfully batting at one another, getting in and out of the pool while mom relaxed
Daisy continues to whine as she and her family watch the two cubs playfully batting at one another, getting in and out of the pool while mom relaxed.
In the video, Kevin is heard telling her: 'You want some? Let's go.'
'Momma's boy!' Tiffany said as the two wrestled playfully.
After the two small bears run around the side of the pool and off camera, the huge mother grizzly bear hefts herself up from the pool.
'She's so beautiful,' Tiffany is heard saying as the huge animal pulled itself out of the water.
'She's so beautiful,' said Tiffany as the huge animal pulled itself out of the water. She told Storyful that the bears soon left her backyard, allowing Daisy to get outside safely for some exercise
Four weeks ago, Tiffany posted video of Daisy ringing the bell over and over while whining softly as she watched a momma bear with two cubs playing in the swimming pool out back
Tiffany told Storyful that the bears soon left her backyard, allowing Daisy to get outside safely for some exercise.
Bear sightings on her property have become frequent since the September 2020 Bobcat Fire, she explained to Storyful, which destroyed a large swathe of the animals' habitat in the Angeles National Forest.
'We see these bears almost every day and often multiple times a day behind our house,' Kress wrote in the Instagram post.
'But they finally decided to come over the wall and drop in for a dip in the pool! Our dog Daisy really wanted to go meet the new friends.'
'We were actually all outside (Daisy, my husband and I) when the bears began to approach,' Tiffany told MailOnline of the incident.
'I just knew that was the day they were going to come into the yard and pool. They came back a few more times to swim in the following weeks but they've been playing in other parts of our town lately.'
Tiffany told DailyMail.com that she thought her dog was trying to get permission to go play with the animals, rather than trying to warn her of their presence. 'She actually wasn't warning us because we saw them coming and grabbed her and went inside,' she said
Born in foster care after her pregnant mother was rescued from the streets in Tijuana, Mexico, Tiffany wrote that Daisy 'loves people (all people), eating food (like her parents), biting anything and everything (but she's working on it), and all the snuggles!'
In October of 2020, another Instagram video of Tiffany's backyard bears captured the interest of local outlet ABC 7.
The earlier video captured the homeowner's first close-up encounter with the bears on her property.
Tiffany said 'can I help you?' bemusedly as an even smaller bear cub puts its paws up on her glass-paned door, apparently hoping to come inside.
'This was the first time I've seen them in the yard and that close to my door/on my door,' Dukes said to the news station.
The little bear was accompanied with another cub in the first video - Tiffany said that she doesn't believe the pairs of cubs in the two videos are the same.
'We know this because of their ages and sizes but also because of the mama bear,' she explained. 'You can see in the video that mama bear has a yellow ear tag from California Fish & Wildlife so she has a record.'
The mama bear, who Kevin and Tiffany have affectionately named 'Lois,' was transported to a forest away from human populations last Summer, 'but bears are brilliant and she found her way back.'
The couple named the two new bear cubs in the most recent video 'Klaus' and 'Schubert.'
When the mother bear gets out of the pool to check on the two cubs, Tiffany narrates her actions in a slight accent: 'Klaus, Schubert, you get back here right now!'
Before she captured the earlier video, she said, she got up from working on the couch to hurriedly close and lock another glass door that was slightly open when the one cub approached.
She started filming when she saw the second cub at another door.
Since that first video, Tiffany and Kevin adopted Daisy this April at a puppy lottery.
Born in foster care after her pregnant mother was rescued from the streets in Tijuana, Mexico, Tiffany wrote that she 'loves people (all people), eating food (like her parents), biting anything and everything (but she's working on it), and all the snuggles!'