{"id":315638,"date":"2026-05-14T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:12","slug":"mountain-lion-sighting-reported-in-davis-residents-urged-to-be-on-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315638\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion sighting reported in Davis, residents urged to be on alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davis residents are being urged to be on alert after a possible mountain lion was spotted on the outskirts of town. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Davis Police Department, the sighting was reported Wednesday evening near Kestrel Place and the nearby bike path in the North Davis area. <\/p>\n<p>While mountain lions are known to usually try and avoid human contact, Davis residents are being urged to stay alert \u2013 especially during evening and early morning hours. <\/p>\n<p>Residents are also being urged to keep their children and pets close by. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the sighting was reported to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain lion sightings are relatively rare in the lower Sacramento Valley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/video\/video-catches-mountain-lion-walking-through-downtown-vacaville\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">but not completely unheard of<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis residents are being urged to be on alert after a possible mountain lion was spotted on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49891,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-315638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-davis-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315638","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=315638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}