{"id":426645,"date":"2026-08-07T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:26:08","slug":"lounging-mountain-lion-shuts-down-road-in-san-dimas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426645\/","title":{"rendered":"Lounging mountain lion shuts down road in San Dimas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mountain lion lounging on the sidewalk under the shade of a tree has shut down a street in San Dimas while wildlife officials rush to the area to capture the animal Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s San Dimas Station announced on <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbvnPLTG-kr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram after 8 a.m. <\/a>that it had received reports about a mountain lion roaming along Foothill Avenue between San Dimas Avenue and San Dimas Canyon Road.<\/p>\n<p>The department urged residents to stay away from the area while also securing pets and any outdoor food that could attract the puma. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunners, pedestrians, and residents are asked to remain vigilant,\u201d the post read. <\/p>\n<p>Cort Klopping, public information officer with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said the agency had received reports and was responding to the location.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mountain lion lounging on the sidewalk under the shade of a tree has shut down a street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[599,7,9,8,6246,10801,21803,36735,984,75778,3729,288,14310,8654,89508,170018,21584,74976],"class_list":["post-426645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-area","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-department","tag-fish","tag-los-angeles-county-sheriff","tag-mountain-lion","tag-pedestrian","tag-public-information-officer","tag-report","tag-resident","tag-road","tag-runner","tag-san-dimas","tag-san-dimas-canyon-road","tag-shade","tag-wildlife-official"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426645","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=426645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}