There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
Also, unlike any other carnivore, an ursine can also dissipate brute strength, which is slow and constant-growing strength as well (kind of like us as well).
Cats and dogs, big and small, are only able to display power movements because their muscle fibers and speed-designed bodies are built for doing so. For them, displaying brute strength would be like shaking their limbs repetitively in powerful motions in order to get the object to budge. A bear can smoothly and consistently move the object since it can linearly increase its strength without having to use power/over-exertion.
For a semi-omnivore, this is very helpful in the wilderness for obvious reasons.
So if a flattened-out dumpster lid of 500-pounds, provided with extreme tension durability, was lying in the middle of a road, the bear would be able to both easily turn the lid over and exert constant force to bend the lid in half; canids and felids are only able to do the former.
The lid's tension strength would be too much for the dog's/cat's lack of type-Ib slow-twitch fibers.