{"id":51794,"date":"2020-09-07T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/orphaned-mountain-lion-cub-rehabbed-sent-back-into-the-wild\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:03:08","slug":"orphaned-mountain-lion-cub-rehabbed-sent-back-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/orphaned-mountain-lion-cub-rehabbed-sent-back-into-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphaned mountain lion cub rehabbed, sent back into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0edb9333-69f5-41b8-bd7a-0a4033980d52&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" alt=\"Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently released two mountain lions east of Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently released two mountain lions east of Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Dan Osby<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two orphaned mountain lion cubs rescued by Colorado Parks and Wildlife last winter were recently released into the wild outside Durango.<\/p>\n<p>CPW spokesman Joe Lewandowski said a cub was spotted back in January hanging around houses in Vallecito, about 25 miles northeast of Durango, in poor condition and apparently without a mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what happened to the mom,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it was probably a couple months old and was found snooping around for food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officers captured the cub and transported it to the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation, a licensed rehabilitation facility in Silt.<\/p>\n<p>There, the mountain lion quickly recovered and was moved into an outdoor pen with another orphaned cub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have very little human contact,\u201d Lewandowski said. \u201cThey can\u2019t see it\u2019s people giving them food \u2026 so those wild instincts stay with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now weighing about 60 pounds each, the two mountain lions were released together in a remote area east of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re healthy, good-sized cats,\u201d Lewandowski said. \u201cNow, they\u2019re on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife says cat now weighs 60 pounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,28,29,1500,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-vallecito","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51794","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=51794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51794"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}