{"id":280822,"date":"2026-02-04T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:50:15","slug":"wildlife-park-comes-to-rescue-of-malnourished-wildcat-found-in-roscommon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280822\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife park comes to rescue of malnourished wildcat found in Roscommon &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A wildlife park in Wexford has come to the rescue of a malnourished African wildcat found in Roscommon in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There were a number of initial sightings of the exotic animal wandering in the Strokestown area late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s understood that the person who found it in an emaciated state handed it over to the relevant authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The wildcat is now doing very well in the expert care of Secret Valley Wildlife Park in Wexford.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3831952_22_articleinline_African_20wildcat1.jpg\" alt=\"There were a number of sightings of the wildcat wandering in the Strokestown area late last year.\" title=\"There were a number of sightings of the wildcat wandering in the Strokestown area late last year.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>There were a number of sightings of the wildcat wandering in the Strokestown area late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s understood that the wildcat is a Serval, a wild small cat native to Africa, and very prevalent in sub-Saharan countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife park in Wexford has come to the rescue of a malnourished African wildcat found in Roscommon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-280822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}