Exclusive | Im living with a 550-pound bear for Christmas heres how I plan to survive

“Beary Christmas!”The holidays are going to be a little less merry and a lot more hairy for the Altadena man with a 550 pound bear living under his house.“You don’t really feel like having people over when there’s a big creature under your house,” explains Ken Johnson — who has had his unwanted roommate for more than three weeks.Johnson tells The Post he’s cancelled his usual pot luck Christmas party, though he jokes he’s considered asking guests to BYOB — “bring your own bear.”Johnson says living with the bear has him feeling like the Grinch.“I’m not going to decorate, I’m not in the mood” That means no tree, no lights, no mistletoe.

Bah-Hum Bug!However, Johnson says he will have the stockings hung, one for him, his cat Boo, and the bear.“I hope the message has got to Santa that he was a bad boy, bring him some coal because if he got sardines he may like that,” said Johnson.“Boo will get some of those temptation treats or a toy mouse because he’s been good.”Johnson admits he does have one special present for the bear, noise. “I have three CD players playing the sounds of dogs barking, bears don’t like dogs.

They’re different dogs, some are barking some are growling.”The bear, nicknamed “Unbearable” by Johnson’s friends, arrived at his home Nov.30 and has been a uninvited guest ever since.The bear continues to wake up Ken at five in the morning, and has destroyed the hardware below his home.

“I wake up, toss and turn and then I think I hear something, is he under my bed? Last night I didn’t get much sleep.”“It’s messing stuff up under the house.That’s going to cost money,” he noted.“I’m waiting for the other paw to drop,” exclaimed Johnson.

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