PHOTOS OF AN INCREDIBLE FAMILY; IT INCLUDES A 7ft BEAR WHO SITS AT THE DINNER TABLE AND HELPS WITH HOUSEHOLD CHORES!

Like any ordinary family member, Stepan eats at the dinner table, watches TV with his parents and does his fair share of household chores. But he's not your average relative - because he's a BEAR!

Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko, from Russia, are loving parents to 23-year-old Stepan, who stands at 7ft tall and weighs over 21 stone. He's so domesticated that he sits at the dinner table and waters the plants. Stepan gets through more than a bowl of porridge a day and also chows down on around 25kg of fish, vegetables and eggs. But the sweet-toothed creature's favourite snack is a can of condensed milk.

Svetlana and Yuriy adopted Stepan when he was just three-months-old, that's why the bear's temperament is extremely gentle and he can often be found cuddling up to them on the sofa. Svetlana said: "Stepan likes nothing more than to cuddle up with us on the sofa at night while we're watching television. When we adopted him, he was only three-months-old and had been found by hunters in the forest having lost his mother. He was in a very bad condition. He absolutely loves people and is a really sociable bear – despite what people might think, he is not aggressive at all.