{"id":643753,"date":"2026-10-28T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:08:47","slug":"cougar-removed-after-being-spotted-outside-moab-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643753\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar removed after being spotted outside Moab business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOAB, Ut. \u2014 A cougar is being relocated after a Moab business discovered it hanging outside on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The young male cougar was spotted by Highpoint Hummer &amp; ATV located on S Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said the animal appeared healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists were able to tranquilize and safely remove the cougar to avoid any public safety concerns, including impacts on livestock.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some footage of the furry fella dosing off.<\/p>\n<p>Cougar removed after being spotted outside Moab business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOAB, Ut. \u2014 A cougar is being relocated after a Moab business discovered it hanging outside on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[315614,315616,315617,315618,315619,111,139,69,147,315615,406],"class_list":["post-643753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-moab-cougar","tag-moab-mountain-lions","tag-moab-news","tag-mountain-lion-sighting","tag-mountain-lion-spotted","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-utah-mountain-lions","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643753","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=643753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}