{"id":310743,"date":"2025-11-27T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310743\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:20:08","slug":"video-shows-rodents-living-in-hertfordshire-drain-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310743\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows rodents living in Hertfordshire drain system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A council has released footage showing a family of nesting rodents sniffing around a roadside drain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hertfordshire County Council said it was one of 11 unusual finds in their roadside drains, which has included a trampoline, pair of trousers and a hand grenade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On 4 November, the local authority started a programme aimed at cleaning at least 520 drains in 80 roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The council, which released the footage, said it showed a family of nesting squirrels. The exact breed of the rodents is unconfirmed but it is thought they are edible dormice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Correction 27 November, 2025: Updates text to make clear the breed of rodent has not been verified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has released footage showing a family of nesting rodents sniffing around a roadside drain. Hertfordshire County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-310743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}