{"id":19068,"date":"2012-08-08T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T05:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=19068"},"modified":"2013-01-18T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:23:02","slug":"bobcat-takes-break-in-palmdale-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/08\/08\/bobcat-takes-break-in-palmdale-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat takes break in Palmdale backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This male bobcat jumped a fence to a Palmdale woman’s backyard and was sleeping when discovered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Norma and Ray Dyakon have lived at The Boulders At The Lake for about 14 years. They said they’ve never seen a bobcat around their trailer before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 When Palmdale senior Norma Dyakon left her trailer for a walk Wednesday afternoon she was surprised to find a wild animal lounging in her flower bed.<\/p>\n

She said she edged closer to get a better look, and then the animal moved.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe raised his head and it wasn\u2019t a kitten, so I let out a yelp and I ran back in the back door,\u201d said Dyakon, who lives at The Boulders At The Lake mobile home park at 1030 East Avenue S in Palmdale.<\/p>\n

Dyakon says she contacted the Palmdale Station around 4 p.m., and deputies immediately responded and then contacted the California Department of Fish and Game.<\/p>\n

Game warden Lt. Marty Wall responded around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Wall said the animal was a bobcat. The animal appeared to be in poor health because it was thin, with protruding bones and sagging skin. The male bobcat also had dried blood on its front left paw from a possible injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is favoring one paw,\u201d Wall said.<\/p>\n

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The bobcat wandered back into the wild on its own, despite an injury to its front paw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wall did not approach the animal, preferring to assess the situation from a distance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d have a bit of a different concern if it was a mountain lion sitting in a yard,\u201d said Wall, adding that he\u2019s prefers to have wild animals retreat on their own.<\/p>\n

A couple of minutes after Wall arrived, the bobcat suddenly got up, jumped back over the brick wall around Dyakon\u2019s back yard, and wandered off near the Una Lake area.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe ran away pretty good, so it\u2019s not much left to do here,\u201d Wall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get the coyotes and the snakes, but this is the first time for a bobcat,\u201d Dyakon said. \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know what got him up and made him run away, but now he\u2019s probably gonna be back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PALMDALE \u2013 When Palmdale senior Norma Dyakon left her trailer for a walk Wednesday afternoon she was surprised to find a wild animal lounging in her flower bed. She said she edged closer to get a better look, and then the animal moved. \u201cHe raised his head and it wasn\u2019t a kitten, so I let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":19074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}