safe capture on Aug. 7 <\/a>and determined it had a fracture of the right pelvis and lung bruises. <\/p>\n\u201cDue to the severity of the injuries, the veterinarian recommended humane euthanasia, which was also supported by CDFW\u2019s Wildlife Health Laboratory veterinarian,\u201d wildlife officials said in the written statement.<\/p>\n
The mountain lion, a young male believed to be between 1 and 3 years old, was put down that same day.<\/p>\n
Wildlife officials could not determine the cause of the injuries but suspected that a vehicle may have struck the cougar, as collisions are among the leading causes of wildlife mortalities in L.A. County.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Fish and Wildlife] is committed to ensuring injured wildlife receive appropriate care and decisions regarding their welfare are based on veterinary assessments and the severity of their injuries,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
The young mountain lion was spotted wandering along Foothill Boulevard between San Dimas Avenue and San Dimas Canyon Road in the morning, according to the San Dimas Sheriff\u2019s Station.<\/p>\n
The cougar was found lying on the sidewalk under the shade of a tree, where deputies set up a perimeter to keep vehicles and people away.<\/p>\n
Wildlife officials said biologists responded to the location and conducted an assessment of the mountain lion after it was tranquilized. <\/p>\n
Video footage showed deputies assisting wildlife officials as they carried the tranquilized animal to a brown cage to transport it out of the area. <\/p>\n
The tragic ending of the young puma in San Dimas comes three months after a year-old female cougar and a 6-month-old male mountain lion were fatally struck by vehicles<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injured mountain lion that wandered into a San Dimas neighborhood a week ago, sparking the temporary closure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[37431,25405,20041,192,18211,10156,2354,345371,79,171048,16329,10129,45599,345374,345372,120619,345373],"class_list":["post-814199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-cause","tag-decision","tag-deputy","tag-environment","tag-fish","tag-injury","tag-mountain-lion","tag-san-dimas-neighborhood","tag-science","tag-severity","tag-statement","tag-vehicle","tag-veterinarian","tag-veterinary-assessment","tag-wildlife-mortality","tag-wildlife-official","tag-young-cougar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814199","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=814199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}