{"id":7639,"date":"2025-10-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/7639\/in-video-party-animals-crash-south-okanagan-koi-pond\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:00:00","slug":"in-video-party-animals-crash-south-okanagan-koi-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/7639\/in-video-party-animals-crash-south-okanagan-koi-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"iN VIDEO: Party animals crash South Okanagan koi pond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oliver resident Edwin Dukes is on holiday with his wife on the Sunshine Coast and recently checked his outdoor security cameras only to find four bears having a pool party in his koi pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s a mom and three cubs, they\u2019ve been around the property in recent weeks but never in the pond,\u201d Dukes said. \u201cOne cub is cinnamon colour, the other two are black.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His property is on six acres in the midst of vineyards and orchards where he typically only sees deer roaming around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bears splash in koi pond in South Okanagan\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zNhHaeg9tuk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bears in the video are seen wandering down a picturesque pathway and plopping into the fountain fed pool. They paw at each other, touch noses and play fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The koi pond is stocked with fish that are two decades old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know how many fish have been killed,\u201d he said. \u201cI had another video where we saw a bear flipping a fish around, it was a big one, but couldn\u2019t tell if he ate it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend of Dukes is heading over to see if and what damage has occurred to the pond and fish, and set up deterrents in the form of ammonia-soaked rags around the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHopefully it works, I don\u2019t want it to become a party pad, but they sure had a great time in that pond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t want it to become a party pad, but they sure had a great time in that pond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":7641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1680,541,543],"tags":[],"region":[322,323,324,325],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/inhome-Koi-pond.jpeg","post_modified":"2025-10-09T06:00:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:00:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}