{"id":1031246,"date":"2022-03-22T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/watch-mountain-lion-visits-california-back-yard-swims-across-lake\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T23:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:32:52","slug":"watch-mountain-lion-visits-california-back-yard-swims-across-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/watch-mountain-lion-visits-california-back-yard-swims-across-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Mountain lion visits California back yard, swims across lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mountain-lion-visits-California-back-yard-swims-across-lake.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wHm2tablFqI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mountain lion goes for a dip in Lake Mission Viejo\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHm2tablFqI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 22 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Residents of a California neighborhood said they were surprised to spot a mountain lion hanging out in their back yard &#8212; and even more surprised to see it swim across a lake.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Strowski said she was awakened about 1:20 a.m. by a loud noise outside her Mission Viejo home, and her husband checked the security cameras to discover there was a mountain lion in the back yard.\n<\/p>\n<p>The couple watched as the cougar spent about 15 minutes on their dock before diving into Lake Mission Veijo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saw it looking in the water and I thought there&#8217;s no way, there&#8217;s no way it&#8217;s going to do this &#8212; but I had a really weird feeling it was &#8212; and it dove into the water,&#8221; Strowski told KTLA-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was contacted by neighbors who spotted the mountain lion wandering through their properties and deputies arrived in time to see the feline swimming across the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Viejo Animal Services said officials are reviewing security camera footage from local residents. The department said officers are keeping an eye out for the animal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 (UPI) &#8212; Residents of a California neighborhood said they were surprised to spot a mountain lion hanging out in their back yard &#8212; and even more surprised to see it swim across a lake. Valerie Strowski said she was awakened about 1:20 a.m. by a loud noise outside her Mission Viejo home, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}