Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko have been host to an unusual dinner guest for the past two decades, a 300-pound brown bear that goes by the name Stepan.

According to Svetlana, "He absolutely loves people and is a really sociable bear. Despite what people might think, he is not aggressive at all. We have never been bitten by Stepan."

They adopted him after hunters found the then 3-month-old bear cub lost and alone. Stepan is now 23-year-old and stands seven feet tall.

Read more at New York Post.

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