{"id":243240,"date":"2026-03-30T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243240\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:24:09","slug":"orphaned-puma-cub-finds-comfort-in-toy-during-recovery-at-oakland-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243240\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphaned Puma Cub Finds Comfort in Toy During Recovery at Oakland Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An orphaned puma cub was filmed playing with a stuffed pig as she continued her recovery at Oakland Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clover, a three-month-old mountain lion, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandzoo.org\/news\/32-mountain-lion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:found;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;found&quot;}\" class=\"link \">found<\/a> alone and severely underweight in El Dorado County. She is now receiving care at the zoo as part of its Rescue and Recovery program, which has treated 32 cubs to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staff said she was steadily improving and beginning to build strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEnrichment like this pink piggy helps give Clover a sense of companionship, which improves her wellbeing immensely,\u201d the zoo said on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oakzoo\/status\/2038024190003974373\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;social media&quot;}\" class=\"link \">social media<\/a>. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An orphaned puma cub was filmed playing with a stuffed pig as she continued her recovery at Oakland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8921,36735,143,145,144,12294,109097,109098],"class_list":{"0":"post-243240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-el-dorado-county","9":"tag-mountain-lion","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-oakland-zoo","14":"tag-recovery-program","15":"tag-stuffed-pig"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}