{"id":429231,"date":"2026-01-22T04:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429231\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:50:06","slug":"baby-mountain-lion-found-with-concerning-injuries-in-middle-of-l-a-county-roadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429231\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby mountain lion found with ‘concerning’ injuries in middle of L.A. County roadway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An injured mountain lion cub was captured by wildlife officials Wednesday after it was seen huddled in the middle of a roadway in the Castaic area, probably after being struck by a car, officials said.<\/p>\n

The juvenile mountain lion was taken to a local veterinarian to be assessed, Cort Klopping, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou never want to see any animal, but especially a juvenile, injured,\u201d Klopping said. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly concerning … and we\u2019re hoping for a good outcome on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cub was found sitting, motionless, in the middle of Hillcrest Parkway near Olympic Street in Castaic just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, according to April Elliott, a spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol, which first responded to the call about the animal. <\/p>\n

The juvenile sat there for more than an hour as troopers waited for wildlife officials to arrive, with local broadcasters capturing gripping footage<\/a> of the cub in the middle of the roadway. <\/p>\n

The cub eventually got up and walked off on its own just after 2 a.m., Elliott said. <\/p>\n

When wildlife officials arrived at the scene, they began searching for the injured cat, eventually finding it in some thick brush, Klopping said. <\/p>\n

The team was able to capture the cub to take it to be examined. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An injured mountain lion cub was captured by wildlife officials Wednesday after it was seen huddled in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[225004,20233,225002,64,63,225001,53294,225003,225000,57005,8168,42885,224998,34786,225005,128,115677,338,224999],"class_list":["post-429231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-a-m-wednesday","tag-animal","tag-april-elliott","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baby-mountain-lion","tag-california-department","tag-castaic-area","tag-cort-klopping","tag-cub","tag-fish","tag-hour","tag-l-a-roadway","tag-middle","tag-olympic-street","tag-science","tag-spokesperson","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-official-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}