{"id":107959,"date":"2025-08-31T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107959\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:12:10","slug":"feisty-little-animal-caught-in-net-reveals-sweetest-face-after-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107959\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Feisty’ Little Animal Caught In Net Reveals Sweetest Face After Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Long Island rescuer John Debacker recently got a call about a squirrel trapped in basketball court netting, the worried animal lover hopped in his car and arrived at the scene within 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Debacker scanned the bottom of the netting, expecting the squirrel to be there. Then, he noticed someone small struggling near the top.<\/p>\n

\"squirrelJohn Debacker<\/p>\n

The experienced rescuer had seen situations like this before, so he knew just what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get many calls of squirrels, cats, possums and other other animals stuck in nets,\u201d Debacker told The Dodo.<\/p>\n

The rescuer climbed up a ladder and began to gently cut the netting out from around the terrified squirrel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a little feisty at first, not understanding I was there to help him,\u201d Debacker said. \u201cHe calmed down quickly, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"squirrelJohn Debacker<\/p>\n

Finally free from the net, the squirrel began getting his bearings. Debacker examined him for injuries and found that he was ready to return to his home in the wild.<\/p>\n

Watching the squirrel scurry away, Debacker couldn\u2019t help but feel a sense of relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s an amazing feeling when an animal is free,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

You can keep up with Debacker’s rescues by\u00a0following him on Facebook.<\/a>\"Rescued<\/a>Rescued Baby Squirrels ‘Freeze’ Every Time Someone Walks In The Room”They freeze, almost like little mimes.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Long Island rescuer John Debacker recently got a call about a squirrel trapped in basketball court netting,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[342,64,63,341,75,340,128,77402,156,339,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-107959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal-encounters","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-daily-dodo","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-maeve-dunigan","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-squirrel","16":"tag-standard","17":"tag-the-dodo","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}