{"id":607772,"date":"2026-09-06T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/607772\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:40:13","slug":"mountain-lion-spotted-in-san-franciscos-panhandle-prompting-animal-control-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/607772\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion spotted in San Francisco&#8217;s Panhandle, prompting animal control response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mountain lion was spotted roaming around San Francisco&#8217;s Panhandle, prompting animal control to respond to the area.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco emergency officials said the mountain lion was seen near Fell and Baker streets Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police officer told CBS News Bay Area that the mountain lion was seen in a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may see the mountain lion is told to slowly back away and not to run. They&#8217;re told to keep pets on a leash and pick up their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In early 2026, a mountain lion was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-francisco-mountain-lion-pacific-heights-released-santa-cruz-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">near Lafayette Park<\/a> in the city&#8217;s Pacific Heights neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mountain lion was spotted roaming around San Francisco&#8217;s Panhandle, prompting animal control to respond to the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,9894,4674,141,386],"class_list":["post-607772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mountain-lion","tag-san-francisco","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}