![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/669045291.jpg\" "\\"Malnourished")
<\/a>The mountain lion cubs weighed 5 pounds each and were determined to be about 10 weeks old. (Burbank Animal Shelter)<\/p><\/div>\n
The cubs weigh 5 pounds each and were taken to a refuge in Calabasas.<\/p>\n
Burbank Police Sgt. Darin Ryburn said residents called in the cubs’ location in the 600 block of East Orange Grove Avenue about 10:30 a.m. The cubs were so small, they were initially reported as baby bobcats.<\/p>\n
Some residents were using brooms to try to hit the cubs or shoo them away, Ryburn said.<\/p>\n
The cubs were first taken to the Burbank Animal Shelter, where it was determined they were 10-week-old mountain lions, he said.<\/p>\n
Cindy Reyes, executive director of the refuge, stressed that residents should not attempt to engage wildlife, no matter how small, and should instead call animal control officers.<\/p>\n
California Department of Fish and Game officials took the cubs to the rehabilitation center, where they were placed with another litter in the hopes of improving their health, Ryburn said.<\/p>\n
“They had not been fed for about two weeks,” he said.<\/p>\n
Reyes said it was unusual for mountain lion cubs to be discovered abandoned in an urban area. “I suspect they were pretty hungry and looking for food,” she said.<\/p>\n
Animal control officers think the mother cat may be dead or perhaps led a male cougar away to prevent harm to the cubs, Ryburn said. Officials will have a better idea of what happened after they get results from a medical examination that included blood tests, he added.<\/p>\n
Reyes said it was difficult to say how the cubs would do, but they seemed to be relatively stable given all the stress.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to hope for the best right now,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 10-week-old mountain lions are discovered under a parked car and sent to a wildlife refuge in Calabasas. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2011 By Maria Hsin, Los Angeles Times Burbank animal control officers Tuesday rescued two malnourished mountain lion cubs that were hiding under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-mountain-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}