A mother bear, accompanied by her two cubs, broke into a woman's truck and vandalized it on Peguis First Nation,180 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

Anita Sutherland woke up to the sound of her truck's horn honking around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. At first, she thought someone was trying to steal her truck so she ran to her window, only to see a mother bear and cub climbing on the roof of the vehicle.

She grabbed her phone.

"I started taking pictures of them and recording them. And then, I noticed the movement inside my truck... and the truck is honking and then I realized, 'Oh that's a bear in my truck,'" Sutherland told CBC News Friday.

Sutherland said she is not exactly sure how the bear got into the vehicle but after the incident one of her door handles was broken, so she believes that the cub was able to use the handle to let itself in, although a window was also left ajar.

"It was just really shocking to see a bear, well to have just a momma bear and a cub bear outside but to have one inside my truck. I just did not know what to think," Sutherland said.

In the heat of the moment, Sutherland said her son told her to call 911 and she couldn't think clearly enough to remember the phone number to dial.

Sutherland and her children were too frightened to go outside but a neighbour drove over in their own vehicle and leaned out the window to open the truck's door and let the cub out.

"He just totally shredded two doors, the roof of my truck, pulled out some speakers. And he left some presents in the back seat," Sutherland said.