{"id":296939,"date":"2026-01-22T03:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:38:07","slug":"baby-mountain-lion-found-with-concerning-injuries-in-middle-of-l-a-county-roadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296939\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby mountain lion found with &#8216;concerning&#8217; injuries in middle of L.A. County roadway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An injured mountain lion cub was captured by wildlife officials Wednesday after it was seen huddled in the middle of a roadway in the Castaic area, probably after being struck by a car, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile mountain lion was taken to a local veterinarian to be assessed, Cort Klopping, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never want to see any animal, but especially a juvenile, injured,\u201d Klopping said. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly concerning &#8230; and we\u2019re hoping for a good outcome on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cub was found sitting, motionless, in the middle of Hillcrest Parkway near Olympic Street in Castaic just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, according to April Elliott, a spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol, which first responded to the call about the animal. <\/p>\n<p>The juvenile sat there for more than an hour as troopers waited for wildlife officials to arrive, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j14bl8y-gNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with local broadcasters capturing gripping footage<\/a> of the cub in the middle of the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>The cub eventually got up and walked off on its own just after 2 a.m., Elliott said. <\/p>\n<p>When wildlife officials arrived at the scene, they began searching for the injured cat, eventually finding it in some thick brush, Klopping said. <\/p>\n<p>The team was able to capture the cub to take it to be examined. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An injured mountain lion cub was captured by wildlife officials Wednesday after it was seen huddled in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[147279,5665,147277,147276,2684,147278,147275,2678,18,2681,1796,19,17,147273,28461,147280,133,15835,461,147274],"class_list":{"0":"post-296939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-a-m-wednesday","9":"tag-animal","10":"tag-april-elliott","11":"tag-baby-mountain-lion","12":"tag-california-department","13":"tag-castaic-area","14":"tag-cort-klopping","15":"tag-cub","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-fish","18":"tag-hour","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-l-a-roadway","22":"tag-middle","23":"tag-olympic-street","24":"tag-science","25":"tag-spokesperson","26":"tag-wildlife","27":"tag-wildlife-official-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115936670662916025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}