Black bear lumbers around Fort Myers for hours before being lured with Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Like any toddler, the 18-month-old would not be cajoled. For hours the tyke led cops on a slo-mo chase for hours around Fort Myers, Fla.

It took Krispy Kreme doughnuts to lure the 250-pound black bear into a cage.

“We ask that you please ‘bear’ with us as we are dealing with an unusual visitor in the city,” wrote the Fort Myers Police Department on Facebook, along with a Twitter photo of the “small black bear,” looking decidedly un-small.

The bear was first spotted at around 4 a.m., officials told the Fort Myers News-Press. They advised residents to avoid the area.

The juvenile proceeded to roam around town for the next several hours, until Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers arrived on the scene.

Residents chronicled the bear’s sojourn with photos as it showed up in parks, on lawns and even behind a “Beware of Dog” sign.

The industrial area the bear eventually found its way into was too well-traveled to tranquilize the juvenile animal, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Adam Brown told the Fort Myers News-Press.

“Oftentimes when we use a tranquilizer … the bear sometimes will run away,” Brown told the Fort Myers News-Press, “and we didn’t want to take any chance of it running into traffic or the residential area.”

One witness recounted seeing the bear coming toward her in her own yard, “which was terrifying,” and then watching it chase a cop across a street, she told WBBH-TV.

It took a few boxes of sugared doughnuts and blueberry-scented spray to entice the bear, Brown told the newspaper.

It was to be released onto state-managed preserve land, Brown told reporters.