{"id":32987,"date":"2023-07-10T00:31:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/arizona-man-driving-to-work-finds-bobcat-under-his-vehicles-hood-animal-returned-to-the-wild\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:05:16","slug":"arizona-man-driving-to-work-finds-bobcat-under-his-vehicles-hood-animal-returned-to-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/arizona-man-driving-to-work-finds-bobcat-under-his-vehicles-hood-animal-returned-to-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona man driving to work finds bobcat under his vehicle&#8217;s hood; animal returned to the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b2cf6c6c-74c7-5f7c-8c03-2c41bf3074c1&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1870\" height=\"1483\" alt=\"A bobcat. (Creative Commons)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A bobcat. (Creative Commons)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Horsepower is one thing, but an Arizona man driving to work wound up with a bobcat underneath his car\u2019s hood.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Game and Fish Department officials reported Friday that the unidentified driver unknowingly struck a bobcat on the way to work recently in Gila Bend, some 73 miles (117 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t know he hit the bobcat until he parked his car and heard some noise under the hood,\u201d Game and Fish officials said. \u201cHe looked under the hood and saw two eyeballs looking at him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s deputies from District 2 \u2014 which covers Gila Bend, Tonopah, the southwest areas of the Phoenix metropolitan area and other communities \u2014 arrived to help as did Game and Fish workers.<\/p>\n<p>They were able to sedate the bobcat and remove it from the vehicle&#8217;s engine compartment behind the grille.<\/p>\n<p>The bobcat wasn\u2019t injured and was released back into the wild, according to wildlife officials.<\/p>\n<p>An online post from the sheriff&#8217;s department said &#8220;District 2 is still the wild, wild West!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bobcat. (Creative Commons) Horsepower is one thing, but an Arizona man driving to work wound up with a bobcat underneath his car\u2019s hood. Arizona Game and Fish Department officials reported Friday that the unidentified driver unknowingly struck a bobcat on the way to work recently in Gila Bend, some 73 miles (117 kilometers) southwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3586,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arizona","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82011,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions\/82011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32987"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}