{"id":941545,"date":"2026-10-22T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941545\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:36:13","slug":"couple-spots-white-cat-by-the-road-before-realizing-hes-a-1-in-10000-rarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941545\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Spots White \u2018Cat\u2019 By The Road Before Realizing He\u2019s A 1-In-10,000 Rarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-element-index=\"0\">Earlier this month, Britni Michelle and her boyfriend decided to go for a scenic drive near their home in Vermont. The pair had hoped to check out the autumn leaves changing colors in the surrounding woods.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">But then they ran across a natural phenomenon that they weren\u2019t expecting.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"2\">Cruising down the street, Britni spotted a bright white figure in the grass just off the roadway.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"3\">\u201cI actually thought it was a cat,\u201d Britni told The Dodo. \u201cUntil it started crossing in front of my car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">Turns out, the \u201ccat\u201d was actually a porcupine who appeared to be an albino. Only about 1 in 10,000 porcupines are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/rare-white-porcupine-spotted-in-canterbury\/8375658\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">born with that condition<\/a>, making the couple\u2019s encounter an incredibly rare one.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">\u201cI questioned if what I was seeing was actually what I was seeing,\u201d Britni said. \u201cHe was very cute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"2\">The plump porcupine leisurely made his way across the road before climbing up a hill and out of sight.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">Neither Britni nor her boyfriend had ever run across an albino porcupine before, so seeing one on their drive made the scenic outing even more memorable.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">\u201cIt definitely made our day,\u201d Britni said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Britni Michelle and her boyfriend decided to go for a scenic drive near their home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[294658,49,48,6586,322488,66,2225,18661,6584,323,133623],"class_list":["post-941545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-albino-porcupine","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daily-dodo","tag-porcupines","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-stephen-messenger","tag-the-dodo","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-encounter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941545","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=941545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}