Saturday 28 May 2022 12:16 AM Dramatic moment Seattle mom saves excited toddler who saw bear in their garden ... trends now
Dramatic home surveillance footage showed a mom saving her toddler after the little girl ran excitedly towards a black bear the youngster saw in their garden.
Home security footage at Samantha Martin's residence in Redmond, a 20-minute drive from downtown Seattle, recorded the dramatic moment of when her toddler, Juniper, shrieks at the spotting of a black cub running along a concrete path in the garden of the backyard.
'Juniper, come back inside,' Martin says as she chases her infant daughter.
'That's a bear!' the youngster gasps in excitement, sprinting towards the wild mammal, whose apex predator mother was likely nearby. As soon as she takes off, her mother dashes across the room and scoops her up before the child gets out of her reach.
'I just panicked. I didn't really have a lot of thoughts in the moment so much as get the child and get back inside,' Martin told FOX 13.
'It was just a little baby bear, but my biggest concern wasn't necessarily the baby bear so much as I didn't know where the mom was and didn't know how she'd feel about two humans running towards her baby,' she added.
Juniper, two, ran towards a baby black bear while watching a movie after seeing the animal walk along a concrete path in the garden of her home
The infant had been watching a movie at the time when she spotted the wild animal. Martin thinks the two-year-old secretly unlocked a door leading
