{"id":433478,"date":"2026-08-15T04:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433478\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:50:10","slug":"hurt-mountain-lion-found-in-san-dimas-euthanized-cdfw-says-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433478\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurt mountain lion found in San Dimas euthanized, CDFW says \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hurt mountain lion that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/mountain-lion-sighting-reported-in-san-dimas-neighborhood\/3926849\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found in a San Dimas neighborhood<\/a> last week has been euthanized, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials responded to the residential area along Foothill Avenue, between San Dimas Avenue and San Dimas Canyon Road, after receiving a report of an injured mountain lion last Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The CDFW said the male animal, which showed signs of external injuries, was tranquilized and taken to a veterinarian to be thoroughly examined.<\/p>\n<p>During that examination, it was determined that the approximately 2-year-old mountain lion had a fracture to the right pelvis and lung contusions, the state agency said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the severity of the injuries, the veterinarian recommended humane euthanasia, which was also supported by CDFW\u2019s Wildlife Health Laboratory (WHL) veterinarian, and that took place later Friday,&#8221; the CDFW said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the animal&#8217;s injuries is unknown. However, the department reminded people last week that vehicles are one of the leading causes of wildlife deaths in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hurt mountain lion that was found in a San Dimas neighborhood last week has been euthanized, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[713,48,52,51,47,50,49,5760],"class_list":["post-433478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-animals-and-wildlife","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-san-gabriel-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433478","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=433478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}