{"id":2409,"date":"2014-06-24T06:59:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2014-06-24T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:13:12","slug":"visiting-mountain-lion-causes-stir-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Mountain Lion Causes Stir In Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mountain lions, perhaps California\u2019s most efficient and stealthy four-legged predators, have long been rumored to move quietly through Sacramento\u2019s open spaces. Sightings pop up regularly, particularly along the American River Parkway, but are often unreliable.<\/p>\n

Now there can be no doubt.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a young male mountain lion was tranquilized and captured in a residential backyard in the capital city\u2019s Oak Park neighborhood, one of the least likely places one would expect to encounter a cougar. Oak Park is busy, densely developed and gridded by major freeways and boulevards.<\/p>\n

Yet there it was: a 70-pound superpredator resting in the landscaped backyard at 32nd and X streets. Walk two blocks east and stroll through the front door at Sacramento Charter High School. Or go two blocks south to the Bonfare Market on Broadway to fill up your gas tank and buy a frozen burrito.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe urban blights of drug dealing and prostitution are kind of a daily thing around here. Or at least within a few blocks, you can see it all going on,\u201d said David Sketchley, who lives next door to the home where the mountain lion was captured. \u201cBut this is a first.\u201d<\/p>\n

This cougar\u2019s visit was a tale of remarkable sightings that occurred at various hours on Saturday. It began, so far as anyone knows, at 1:35 a.m. Saturday near 58th and M streets, when the first call came into the Sacramento Police Department: A mountain lion was roaming the streets of east Sacramento. That location is a full three miles from Sketchley\u2019s neighborhood, but less than a half-mile from the American River and the Sacramento State campus. Police officers checked the area but were unable to locate anything.<\/p>\n

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Read more here: http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2014\/06\/23\/6506312\/mountain-lion-More at SacBee.com >>>visitor-causes-stir.html#storylink=cp<\/div>\n

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Mountain lions, perhaps California\u2019s most efficient and stealthy four-legged predators, have long been rumored to move quietly through Sacramento\u2019s open spaces. Sightings pop up regularly, particularly along the American River Parkway, but are often unreliable. Now there can be no doubt. On Saturday, a young male mountain lion was tranquilized and captured in a residential … Continue reading Visiting Mountain Lion Causes Stir In Sacramento<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-safety","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}