{"id":386479,"date":"2026-01-04T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:25:07","slug":"mdc-confirms-mountain-lion-sighting-near-country-club-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386479\/","title":{"rendered":"MDC confirms Mountain Lion sighting near Country Club | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANDREW COUNTY, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirmed to KQ2 that a mountain lion was spotted near Business 71 and Miller Road Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MDC, a mountain lion was spotted in the area listed. The Country Club Village Police Department said on social media that the cat was struck by a vehicle around 5:20 pm on Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Conservation agents arrived in the area and successfully located the animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon discovery, they noticed the mountain lion had suffered serious injuries. The MDC then chose to euthanize the Mountain Lion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MDC confirmed that there is no known threat to the public at this time. Country Club PD also said in their statement that the Andrew County Sheriff&#8217;s Department assisted the MDC during this situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANDREW COUNTY, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirmed to KQ2 that a mountain lion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3,6207,79,452,201],"class_list":["post-386479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-science","tag-top-stories","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386479","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=386479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}