{"id":16190,"date":"2026-02-07T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16190"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:58:51","slug":"here-kitty-kitty-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/here-kitty-kitty-kitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Department of Natural Resources does NOT want you to say that when you see a bobcat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/bobcats-in-iowa-grundy-county-sighting-dnr\/70258543\">but LOOKIT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw &#8220;Meet Comet&#8221; in the alert, I thought it had to be a sports-related name, and yes, this bobcat was spotted (pun not intended) at a playground in Conrad.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures are all in the snow, which has all melted between then and now, so maybe Comet is off to more agreeable climes.<\/p>\n<p>The other cat story of the week was a lioness at Blank Park Zoo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/super-bowl-60-seahawks-or-patriots-blank-park-zoo-lion-prediction\/70237392\">making a Super Bowl prediction<\/a>, but what would a lion know about the Super Bowl?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Department of Natural Resources does NOT want you to say that when you see a bobcat, but LOOKIT. When I saw &#8220;Meet Comet&#8221; in the alert, I thought it had to be a sports-related name, and yes, this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/here-kitty-kitty-kitty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16191,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190\/revisions\/16191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}