{"id":394323,"date":"2026-01-07T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394323\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:17:15","slug":"wildlife-alert-issued-after-moose-spotted-in-fort-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394323\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife alert issued after moose spotted in Fort St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Moose-in-winter-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200643\"  \/>A moose was spotted in the Toboggan Hill Park area near the off-leash dog park. (Canva)<\/p>\n<p>FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 The City of Fort St. John has issued a wildlife warning after a moose was spotted in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1221867233384971&amp;set=a.205222541716117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook post<\/a> uploaded on January 5th to the City of Fort St. John\u2019s page, a moose was spotted in the Toboggan Hill Park area near the off-leash dog park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wildlife warning has reminded residents to be cautious and aware in the area and avoid travelling in groups or making noise at the risk of surprising wildlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pet owners are advised to keep their dogs on leash and away from wild animals.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, residents are asked to avoid animals\u2019 feeding grounds and watch for changes in animal behaviour which might mean they are too close.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Advice was also given in case of a bear encounter \u2013 do not run, speak calmly yet firmly while trying to appear larger and back away slowly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In case the bear becomes aggressive, people are asked to throw things if attacked and fight back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; A moose was spotted in the Toboggan Hill Park area near the off-leash dog park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-394323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394323","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=394323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}