--- description: Bear channeling Winnie the Pooh got head stuck in cookie jar. title: Bear gets head stuck in cookie jar image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt040154610e5e27f9/69869a4e13c79f5002192ea8/cookie-jar-bear-cub.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Yet Another Bear Channels Winnie the Pooh and Gets Head Stuck in Cookie Jar  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jul 2, 2014 6:56 PM CUT  NJ Department of Environmental Protection / AP  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jul 2, 2014 6:56 PM CUT A bear cub got its head stuck trying to eat the crumbs at the bottom of a plastic jar of animal crackers while dumpster diving in a northern New Jersey town on Friday, June 27. Officials from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection rescued the animal, which had climbed up a tree in Ringwood. It was tranquilized, then brought down, so firefighters could cut off the jar. [In April, a story](http://time.com/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/ "undefined") about a bear that got its head stuck in a plastic birdseed bucket and wandered around the town of Lively in Ontario, Canada, went viral. Both incidents produced paw-sitively adorable photos. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2950763/bear-head-stuck-in-cookie-jar-new-jersey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2950763/bear-head-stuck-in-cookie-jar-new-jersey/"},"headline":"Yet Another Bear Channels Winnie the Pooh and Gets Head Stuck in Cookie Jar","datePublished":"2014-07-02T18:56:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:20.568Z","description":"An animal crackers jar, appropriately enough","url":"https://time.com/2950763/bear-head-stuck-in-cookie-jar-new-jersey/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt040154610e5e27f9/69869a4e13c79f5002192ea8/cookie-jar-bear-cub.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt040154610e5e27f9/69869a4e13c79f5002192ea8/cookie-jar-bear-cub.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"cookie-jar-bear-cub","caption":"","creditText":"NJ Department of Environmental Protection / AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2950763/bear-head-stuck-in-cookie-jar-new-jersey/","name":"Yet Another Bear Channels Winnie the Pooh and Gets Head Stuck in Cookie Jar"}}]}] ```