{"id":621328,"date":"2026-05-03T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:27:08","slug":"feisty-cat-fights-off-coyote-in-pico-rivera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621328\/","title":{"rendered":"Feisty cat fights off coyote in Pico Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PICO RIVERA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Video shows a cat fighting off a coyote in a daytime encounter that unfolded in a Pico Rivera neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The footage shows the cat standing her ground before climbing up a tree, outsmarting the coyote. A neighbor recorded the encounter and shared the video with the cat&#8217;s owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The family said the incident was especially alarming because they lost another cat to a coyote last year. They believe bold daytime encounters with coyotes are becoming a frightening new trend in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I said, &#8216;Oh my God, that&#8217;s Mama!&#8221; said Debbie Beltran, the cat&#8217;s owner. &#8220;Her personality &#8230; everything clicked. She&#8217;s always been feisty, this type of cat, and has got into fights before so it doesn&#8217;t surprise me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The family has had the cat for about five years but believes Mama is around 10 years old. Since the encounter, they have been giving her extra attention.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PICO RIVERA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Video shows a cat fighting off a coyote in a daytime encounter that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[269362,79,201],"class_list":["post-621328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-269362","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621328","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=621328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}