Deborah Epstein, from Ringwood, New Jersey, was home recovering from a recent car accident that left her with multiple face and shoulder injuries, when a bear walked through her door.
She was sitting on the porch with her 6-pound yorkshire terrier Joe, when her phone rang and she went inside to pick up the call.
Epstein said she made the mistake of leaving her front door open when she went inside. All of the sudden, she heard Joe barking like crazy.
"He barks when anybody comes, but this one sounded a little more furious than usual," she said to CBS New York. She turned around and couldn't believe her house intruder was a bear.
"'Oh my God, there's a bear in the house!' I just couldn't believe it," she said.
Epstein said the bear headed toward Joe's food bowl, but Joe was not having it.
"Joe was attacking it," she said. "Basically, the bear was heading for his food dish bowl, and you don't touch Joe's food dish bowl. And he actually got the bear to turn around and chased him out the door."
Some neighbors corroborated the facts, saying they saw the intruding bear luring around.
"I looked out the window and I seen the bear coming from a yard," said John Wolff.
Ringwood police and neighbors said bear sightings happen almost daily in the area, and thus, no one seemed fazed by what happened. That included Epstein, and Joe.
"I saved him from the pound, and he saved me from a bear," Epstein said. "We're even."
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