{"id":353834,"date":"2025-12-17T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:56:08","slug":"u-p-prison-surprised-by-agile-furry-guest-that-jumped-through-barbed-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353834\/","title":{"rendered":"U.P. prison surprised by agile, furry guest that jumped through barbed wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KBL5E2B755FHBPZAXXYIJWOE4I\">SAULT STE. MARIE, MI &#8212; Prisons rarely have guests barging through the wire to get in, but one fast, furry Michigander snuck onto the grounds of the Chippewa Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WORDDIFTPFEIFH2JKDS46ONBJY\">A bobcat jumped out of the wire, ran around the perimeter and up a maple tree, according to a Dec. 16 Facebook post from the Upper Peninsula prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KO325HVTMZAHXMENWLCQRDYRG4\">The unexpected guest hung out for an hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OITMADXHIZDU3FLH7NTWFSTVTE\">Once the bobcat jumped down it ran around the parking as staff tried to chase it off the premise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4C2LF3XEE5CDDHEMSMBUVNFED4\">Correctional and Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff were finally able to corral the bobcat into the forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5IVG2WT4IFBL5GCJ6HLGC242II\">Bobcats thrive in dense forests and brushy habitats, of which Chippewa County is plentiful &#8211; including significant portions of the Hiawatha National Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O3ADY5Q3LJFTHM5LS7PSNUGYOI\">Bobcats are elusive due to their small size, quick agility and spotted fur that makes a natural camouflage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6WMGQ6KMXNG7ZAI4T7VBIUCKQI\">Due to their evasive nature, there is no population count for bobcats in Michigan. However, the DNR has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/public-interest\/2022\/02\/lower-michigan-may-get-expanded-bobcat-hunting-trapping.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/public-interest\/2022\/02\/lower-michigan-may-get-expanded-bobcat-hunting-trapping.html\">classified the bobcat population as stable.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAULT STE. MARIE, MI &#8212; Prisons rarely have guests barging through the wire to get in, but one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-353834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353834","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=353834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}