{"id":675325,"date":"2026-09-06T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675325\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:48:14","slug":"mountain-lion-spotted-in-san-franciscos-panhandle-prompting-animal-control-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675325\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion spotted in San Francisco&#8217;s Panhandle, prompting animal control response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mountain lion was spotted roaming around San Francisco&#8217;s Panhandle, prompting animal control to respond to the area.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco emergency officials said the mountain lion was seen near Fell and Baker streets Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police officer told CBS News Bay Area that the mountain lion was seen in a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may see the mountain lion is told to slowly back away and not to run. They&#8217;re told to keep pets on a leash and pick up their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In early 2026, a mountain lion was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-francisco-mountain-lion-pacific-heights-released-santa-cruz-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">near Lafayette Park<\/a> in the city&#8217;s Pacific Heights neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mountain lion was spotted roaming around San Francisco&#8217;s Panhandle, prompting animal control to respond to the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,21536,1605,133,461],"class_list":["post-675325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mountain-lion","tag-san-francisco","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117224177851073477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675325","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=675325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}