{"id":491219,"date":"2026-02-26T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:10:25","slug":"mountain-lion-cub-spotted-in-saratoga-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491219\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion, cub spotted in Saratoga \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Saratoga family had two unexpected visitors in their backyard this week: a large mountain lion and her juvenile cub.<\/p>\n<p>The sighting happened early Sunday morning via a surveillance camera at a home less than two miles from downtown Saratoga.<\/p>\n<p>Kaetlyn Doss said she sent the video footage to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), which confirmed the big cats were a mother and juvenile cub.<\/p>\n<p>Doss said the same pair also visited her property last month.<\/p>\n<p>A CDFW spokesperson said it&#8217;s not unusual for mountain lions to come down into the valley, especially at dusk and dawn.<\/p>\n<p>CDFW experts said mountain lions typically try to avoid people. But if you do encounter a big cat, make loud noises, try to look bigger, and slowly back away. Do not run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Saratoga family had two unexpected visitors in their backyard this week: a large mountain lion and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[224947,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-491219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-saratoga","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491219","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=491219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}