{"id":947390,"date":"2026-10-26T21:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947390\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:54:16","slug":"a-montreal-man-on-the-run-from-authorities-takes-pet-raccoon-for-rabies-vaccination-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947390\/","title":{"rendered":"A Montreal man on the run from authorities takes pet raccoon for rabies vaccination \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL \u2013 A Montreal man who says he is on the run from provincial authorities for housing a raccoon has taken his pet for a rabies vaccination.<\/p>\n

Louka Berman took the raccoon named Pepper to meet the owner of a refuge north of Montreal on Monday and get the vaccination.<\/p>\n

Quebec is currently dealing with an outbreak of raccoon rabies, although it has not yet reached Montreal.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLouka Berman and his pet raccoon Pepper share a muffin outside Saint-Damien, Que., on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi<\/p>\n

Pepper went viral online in September after Berman posted a video of himself riding a bike with the raccoon on his back.<\/p>\n

He says provincial environmental enforcement officers have visited his home with a warrant to seize the raccoon, but have not managed to capture the mammal.<\/p>\n

The provincial environment ministry did not immediately respond to questions sent on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Berman says he has collected thousands of dollars through online fundraising campaigns since he first started posting about Pepper and hopes to use the money to build a wildlife sanctuary in the city.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 26, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 A Montreal man who says he is on the run from provincial authorities for housing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-947390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947390","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=947390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}