{"id":263866,"date":"2025-11-01T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:11:07","slug":"why-colorado-wildlife-officials-say-you-shouldnt-let-wildlife-eat-your-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263866\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Colorado wildlife officials say you shouldn\u2019t let wildlife eat your pumpkins:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; For everyone who has carved pumpkins this Halloween season, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is sharing what you should do with them now that the season is coming to a close. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wildlife officials said that the pumpkins should be thrown away or composted, not left out for wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to wildlife officials, leaving pumpkins out for animals could lead to attracting mountain lions to residential areas. They say it could also lead to unnecessary human-bear conflicts, as they say bears are also attracted to pumpkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They said animals, including elk, moose and deer with calves and fawns, could also become aggressive when food is around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cpw.state.co.us\/feeding-wildlife\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cpw.state.co.us\/feeding-wildlife\">Intentionally feeding wildlife is illegal in Colorado<\/a> due to the risks to wildlife health and safety. They said those found to be feeding wildlife could be subject to fines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CPW said it could also lead to diseases spreading among wildlife, livestock, domestic animals and people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Food to Power offers seven different composting drop-off sites in Colorado Springs and one in Manitou Springs. <a href=\"https:\/\/foodtopowerco.org\/compost\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/foodtopowerco.org\/compost\">Click here to view all drop-off locations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; For everyone who has carved pumpkins this Halloween season, Colorado Parks and Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[4,2408,4934,4932,4931,4933,4935,79,4930,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-263866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breaking-news-video","10":"tag-live-speeches","11":"tag-live-updates","12":"tag-live-video","13":"tag-press-conference","14":"tag-real-time-coverage","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-video-updates","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263866","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=263866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}