{"id":434367,"date":"2026-01-28T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:50:08","slug":"young-mountain-lion-captured-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434367\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Mountain Lion Captured in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n A young mountain lion took a tour of one of San Francisco’s priciest neighborhoods this week, prompting a multi-agency response and a warning for residents to be cautious outdoors. San Francisco Animal Care and Control said the big cat, believed to be about a year old, was first seen early Monday near Lafayette Park in Pacific Heights and was spotted again Monday night, KTVU<\/a> reports. Officials say it was captured Tuesday morning after an hourslong standoff in Pacific Heights, reports SFGate<\/a>. It was cornered in a space between two buildings and police officers were seen firing tranquilizers at the mountain lion from the fire escape of one of the buildings. \n <\/p>\n


\n After the tranquilizers kicked in, the 77-pound male mountain lion was removed from the area in a metal cage. San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mariano El\u00edas says that after a health evaluation, the animal will be released into its natural habitat. Mountain lion sightings are rare but not unheard of in the city, the AP<\/a> reports. In 2020, a young mountain lion was captured near Oracle Park<\/a> and released into the wild. \n <\/p>\n


\n Pacific Heights resident Roxanne Blank tells SFGate that she saw the “majestic” animal on the front steps of her apartment building. “At first, I thought it was a dog, but I realized with a long tail, it’s got to be something else,” says Blank, who called 911 when she realized it was a mountain lion. “In the morning, reality set in, and it was very sobering, because I saw the scratch marks on the ground,” she says. “That’s when I was like ‘Oh wow, that was a big kitty, and those claw marks are huge.'” \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A young mountain lion took a tour of one of San Francisco’s priciest neighborhoods this week, prompting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,2354,5284,79],"class_list":["post-434367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-mountain-lion","tag-san-francisco","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434367","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=434367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}