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Published: 03 January 2017 03 January 2017

By Roger Lanse

According to the sheriff's blotter, a Grant County Sheriff's Department deputy was dispatched Sunday morning, Jan. 1, at approximately 9 a.m., to the rear of Fort Bayard Medical Center regarding a report of four mountain lion cubs outside the facility. The call was then routed through New Mexico State Police to a New Mexico Game and Fish Department employee who was on duty.

Derrick Theobald, NMG&F Silver City Sgt., responded to the call and said when he arrived at FBMC, a witness told him the animals were a mother bobcat and her three kittens. From tracks in the dirt, Theobald said, he was able to confirm the identity of bobcat, not mountain lion.

So, while several mountain lion sightings have been reported from the Tri-City area in the last month or so, this was not one of them.