"I still rule my kitchen"
A 95-year-old British Columbia woman in Canada said she had to chase a hungry black bear out of her kitchen not once, but twice in one day.
Anna Stady said she was watching TV at her home in Union Bay, on Vancouver Island, when she heard a noise in the kitchen and looked to discover a black bear rummaging for food.
"I was annoyed," Stady told CTV Vancouver Island.
"I told him to go and then he just went about halfway to the backyard and I said 'No! Go home!'"
Stady said the bear sauntered off, but later in the same day she found the animal going through her cupboard.
Bears are often unwelcome house guests in Canada"He made a regular mess," she said.
"I was really annoyed with him and I told him to go. He looked at me and then he grabbed something, I don't know what it was, and ran out."
The nonagenarian said she was firm with the bear.
"Well, now I was really cross with him, and I told him so. I said 'I'm really angry with you. Go home and don't come back.' I guess he believed me, because as far as I know, he hasn't been back," Stady told the Comox Valley Record.
She said she wasn't afraid during either of the encounters.
"I still rule my kitchen," she said.
