{"id":270266,"date":"2026-08-22T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:14:08","slug":"aggressive-coyote-spotted-in-cheltenham-township-pennsylvania-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270266\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive coyote spotted in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Montgomery County are warning residents about reports of an aggressive coyote spotted in the area.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post Friday afternoon, Cheltenham police said they received multiple reports of an aggressive coyote in the Wyncote section of Cheltenham Township.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/coyote.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Aggressive coyote seen wandering Cheltenham Township, police say \" height=\"471\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Cheltenham Township Police Deptment<\/p>\n<p>The coyote was spotted near Curtis Park, Hopeland Road, Washington Lane and Rock Creek Drive, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said officers searched the area using drones but were unable to locate the animal. The Pennsylvania Game Commission is sending officers to survey the area, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged residents not to approach the coyote if they see it and to call 911 immediately. Pet owners are also urged to keep their pets indoors.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the coyote has come into contact with anyone in the area.  <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Montgomery County are warning residents about reports of an aggressive coyote spotted in the area. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13911,19905,200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-270266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cheltenham-township","tag-coyote","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}