{"id":183584,"date":"2025-09-26T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183584\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:19:09","slug":"pet-bobcat-escapes-in-northern-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183584\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet bobcat escapes in northern Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Minneapolis mayoral candidates set to debate, and more headlines <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gettyimages-1835504092.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/video\/minneapolis-mayoral-candidates-set-to-debate-and-more-headlines\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Minneapolis mayoral candidates set to debate, and more headlines<\/p>\n<p>          04:09<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in northern Minnesota say a pet bobcat has escaped from its owner.<\/p>\n<p>The bobcat was reported missing Thursday from its home in Warroad, near the border to Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a state statute, a bobcat is considered a regulated species in Minnesota, meaning it is illegal for a person to own one without a U.S. Department of Agriculture license.<\/p>\n<p>The Roseau County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says anyone who sees the animal should not approach it and instead call the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bobcatmn.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"bobcatmn.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Roseau County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>According to the DNR, about 2,000 bobcats live in the wild in northern Minnesota. They live most commonly in the woods of north-central and northeastern Minnesota. They&#8217;re smaller and more slender than the lynx and eat medium-sized prey like mice and squirrels.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/aki-nace\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aki  Nace<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Aki Nace has been a web producer for CBS Minnesota since 2019. She covers breaking news and makes short-form documentary films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minneapolis mayoral candidates set to debate, and more headlines Minneapolis mayoral candidates set to debate, and more headlines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[15628,6429,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-183584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bobcat","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}