{"id":28311,"date":"2025-07-28T02:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28311\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:15:07","slug":"man-punches-cougar-in-face-deters-attack-near-smithers-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28311\/","title":{"rendered":"Man punches cougar in face, deters attack near Smithers, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British Columbia man suffered minor injuries after fending off a cougar attack by punching the animal in the face in the province\u2019s northern Interior.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s Conservation Officer Service says in a social media post that the attack happened on Saturday around 11 a.m. near Smithers, B.C., some 1,000 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The service says the man was working near Lake Kathlyn when the animal approached and swiped his upper body,<\/p>\n<p>The man told officers that he punched the cougar in the face and the animal then disengaged.<\/p>\n<p>The service says the man suffered non-life-threatening injuries and did not need to be hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Officers set a live trap in the area and surveyed the scene but did not locate the cougar, and the service says it is monitoring the vicinity in case another response is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British Columbia man suffered minor injuries after fending off a cougar attack by punching the animal in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-28311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}