{"id":444522,"date":"2026-02-02T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444522\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:19:07","slug":"mountain-lion-spotted-multiple-times-in-sebastopol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444522\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion spotted multiple times in Sebastopol"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mountain lion was spotted multiple times Sunday morning around Sebastopol, according to police.<\/p>\n

Between about 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., residents reported seeing a mountain lion in backyards on Jewel Avenue, Walnut Lane and Shaun Court, Sebastopol police Sgt. Cameron Fenske said. In a video posted by North Bay Animal Services<\/a>, the contracted animal control provider for Sebastopol, a mountain lion is seen simply walking around a back patio area.<\/p>\n

A mountain lion was last spotted on First Street and seemed to be headed west, Fenske said. Another witness called about 11:30 a.m. to report a photo of the animal taken near Lynch Road, but it\u2019s unclear when the photo was taken.<\/p>\n

Officers, North Bay Animal Services and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to the area to search. They eventually left after not spotting the mountain lion and reports stopped.<\/p>\n

Fenske said authorities believe the animal has left the area.<\/p>\n

Sebastopol police asked that anyone who spots a mountain lion call the police station at 707-829-4400 or animal services at 707-762-6227.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mountain lion was spotted multiple times Sunday morning around Sebastopol, according to police. Between about 9:30 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2354,1583,79,209046,5414,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-444522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-mountain-lion","9":"tag-police","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-sebastopol","12":"tag-sonoma-county","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444522","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=444522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}