{"id":466377,"date":"2026-06-08T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466377\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:16:12","slug":"westgate-man-reunited-with-stolen-cats-after-police-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466377\/","title":{"rendered":"Westgate man reunited with stolen cats after police investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Jun, 2026 04:32 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The owner was pleased to be reunited with the two British shorthairs. Photo \/ New Zealand Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A West Auckland man has been reunited with his purebred cats after they were stolen while he was moving house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to Rush Creek Drive on Saturday after the owner returned to the property to find his two British shorthairs were missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The breed can sell for between<br \/>\n         $1500 and $3000.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Waitemat\u0101 west area prevention manager Acting Inspector Nick Salter said the man had been collecting the last of his belongings when he made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe victim managed to speak with neighbours who had CCTV, and after a number of inquiries and some excellent teamwork, we managed to identify the alleged thieves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Jun, 2026 04:32 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,1558,19699,10053,12898,5158,2686,111,43,139,69,675,236151,216921,4736,8229,3608,3807,201736,6123,102],"class_list":["post-466377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-cats","tag-house","tag-investigation","tag-man","tag-moving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-purebred","tag-reunited","tag-stolen","tag-they","tag-were","tag-west","tag-westgate","tag-while","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}