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GREENSBORO — There was another bear sighting today southeast of the city limits.

Gail Sullivan said (audio) she heard her pet Chihuahua Phebe start barking at about 11 a.m. Tuesday. When she looked out her living room window, she saw the bear strolling down Ruayne Road.

Sullivan's home is between U.S. 421 and Blumenthal Road, southeast of Greensboro.

Sullivan said the bear walked slowly down Ruayne Road for about 10 to 15 minutes before it went into the woods. She described the bear's actions as nonchalant. The bear, which was by itself, did not enter her yard or threaten her. Ila Ingold also saw the bear walking along Pleasant Garden Road.

"It was a very scary thing to think that I was seeing this bear that everybody's been seeing," she said. "I wish he was gone."

Tuesday's incident was the latest bear sighting southeast of Greensboro

Guilford County Animal Control has been in contact with the N.C Department of Wildlife Resources, which says this is probably a subadult male passing from the western Piedmont area through Guilford County in search of a new home with food, water, shelter and a mate elsewhere in the state.

Bear experts with the state agency advise residents to avoid contact with this bear and to leave it alone. Bears that become comfortable around people lose their natural fear of humans. Ultimately, a humanized bear would have to be relocated or euthanized.