{"id":864595,"date":"2026-09-29T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:22:12","slug":"possible-bobcat-sighting-reported-in-bethany-in-washington-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864595\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible bobcat sighting reported in Bethany in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Residents in Bethany, Ore., are being warned after a bobcat was reportedly caught on video in a residential neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The \u201clarge cat\u201d was recorded on NW Kaiser Road near NW Springville Road, according to the Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office <\/a>shared the video of the encounter on its Facebook page.<\/a> <\/a>Though a positive identification was not made, the sheriff\u2019s office said the animal is believed to be a bobcat.<\/p>\n

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Authorities have reached out to the Oregon State Police and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife about the sighting.<\/p>\n

There have not been any reports of people or pets being attacked.<\/p>\n

Bobcat sightings in unincorporated Washington County is not uncommon, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Because of the sighting, officials are urging residents to consider some best practices for living around bobcats, including fencing and sheltering livestock; feeding pets indoors; keeping pets indoors at night and on a leash and under your control when walking in wild areas.<\/p>\n

Tap here to learn more about living around bobcats.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Residents in Bethany, Ore., are being warned after a bobcat was reportedly caught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-864595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864595","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=864595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}