The deck is one that the chonky old boar is fond of and he came back close to denning season.
DURANGO, Colo. — An absolutely enormous bear was spotted under a deck in Durango this week and was moved to more bear-friendly territory outside of town, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.
“Check out this chonk of a black bear our wildlife officers moved Thursday from underneath a deck on the west side of Durango!” CPW said on the social media platform X. “He’s an absolute tank.”
“What an absolute unit,” CPW said.
The old boar wasn’t a stranger to Durango. He’d been spotted getting into trash and fruit trees frequently over the summer.
“There was one deck he showed to be fond of,” CPW said. “He hadn’t come back to the deck in a few weeks, but he showed back up on Thursday.”
When the homeowner went down the stairs to his back porch, the bear growled and huffed at him. So the homeowner called CPW.
It took …