This mama bear was caught raiding garbage bins in Kamloops, B.C.

A hungry mama bear resorted to dumpster diving for an evening snack this week in Kamloops, B.C., and she brought her cubs along for the adventure.

Shawn King was out for a walk in the Valleyview neighborhood of Kamloops — about 167 kilometres northwest of Kelowna in the Interior — earlier this week, when he spotted a bear teaching her cubs how to forage for trash. 

“It was knocking over all the garbage cans on the street,” King said on CBC’s Daybreak Kamloops Wednesday morning. 

King said the bear moved from bin to bin, pulling out bags of garbage and eating their contents, as two cubs tagged along behind. 

The video he took from afar was shared

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