A homeowner found a black bear fast asleep on his lawn and the reason why is a lot to swallow

Bob Cross, of Lake Mary, normally gets calls from his neighbors to catch nuisance critters, but Saturday he got an unusual call from his neighbor Art Fischer.

"(He) said there was big bear in her backyard," said Cross.

When Cross rounded the corner, he knew he was going to leave this one alone.

"That's a big bear. That's a huge bear," he said.

As Cross got closer, he snapped a few photos of bear and its dinner, a 50-pound bag of dog food that it dragged from a garage nearby to under the shade of a tree.

Cross watch the bear toss and turn for several minutes, laughing at how human-like it was sleeping.

"(It) repositioned three or four times and stretched out. It just laid there," he said.

Fischer didn't want it coming back for seconds, so he grabbed the leftovers and put the rest in his garage and locked it up.

Cross and his neighbors said they hope no one shoots the bear once bear season begins Oct. 1.

"They were here before we were," said Fischer.