"No, that's not our dog," he wrote alongside the photo of the bear taking a rest in a child's wading pool.
"I guess he just wanted to cool off, so we left him alone," Zbaracki wrote.
Zbaracki said he grew up in Duluth, but just moved back to the city with his wife and two kids earlier this month.
"It's Duluth. There are woods everywhere," he told the Star Tribune newspaper. "It's not uncommon for Duluthians to have encounters with wildlife. You see deer everywhere in our backyards. Bears aren't as common, but they are around."
He said the sight of the bear in the pool struck him as humorous.
"I hate to humanize the bear, but it kind of looked like: 'Hey, I just ate lunch and now it's time to cool off,'" he said. "It's just another Monday in Duluth."
