{"id":593606,"date":"2026-09-08T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593606\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:50:12","slug":"mountain-lion-enters-fall-river-county-home-prompting-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593606\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion enters Fall River County home, prompting warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; The Fall River County Sheriff\u2019s Office says dispatch received a call last week about a mountain lion entering someone\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident happened Tuesday night in the Cottonwood Springs Dam area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office is sharing tips to help keep wildlife from entering homes. It says residents should keep windows, doors and pet doors closed each night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office also recommends securing trash cans with tight-fitting lids, covering window wells, installing outdoor lighting, sealing crawl spaces, screening vents and keeping fireplace dampers shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is no word on what happened with the mountain lion or if it is still nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a> to report it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/community\/user-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Send it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; The Fall River County Sheriff\u2019s Office says dispatch received a call last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[292646,292639,292638,292641,292642,292648,292650,292651,292652,292649,292640,292643,111,139,69,147,292645,292644,292647,406],"class_list":["post-593606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-black-hills-mountain-lions","tag-cottonwood-springs-dam-wildlife","tag-fall-river-county-mountain-lion","tag-fall-river-county-sheriffs-office","tag-keep-wildlife-out-of-home","tag-kota","tag-kota-news","tag-kota-territory","tag-kota-territory-news","tag-kota-tv","tag-mountain-lion-entering-home","tag-mountain-lion-safety-tips-sd","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-secure-pet-doors-wildlife","tag-south-dakota-mountain-lion-sightings","tag-wild-animal-home-intrusion-sd","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}