{"id":926107,"date":"2026-10-09T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926107\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:12:09","slug":"potential-cougar-sighting-in-central-saanich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926107\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential cougar sighting in Central Saanich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sighting was in the vicinity of Jeffree Road and Mahon Place.<\/p>\n<p>Central Saanich police issued a warning Thursday afternoon about a possible cougar sighting in the vicinity of Jeffree Road and Mahon Place.<\/p>\n<p>Police encouraged residents to remain vigilant and keep children and pets close.<\/p>\n<p>Any wildlife conflicts should be reported to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service at 1-877-952-7277.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sighting was in the vicinity of Jeffree Road and Mahon Place. Central Saanich police issued a warning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-926107","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\/926107","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=926107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}