{"id":189546,"date":"2025-10-10T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:23:08","slug":"drivers-urged-to-take-extra-care-as-squirrels-prepare-to-hibernate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189546\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers urged to take extra care as squirrels prepare to hibernate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Bargit said caring for the squirrels is a &#8220;really demanding task&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When they come in the vets will check them over for malnutrition and disease and injuries,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it&#8217;s a baby, a kit, they&#8217;ll be weaned &#8211; so we&#8217;re trying to mimic the natural lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once they&#8217;ve developed the right skills to crack nuts and build nests and climb trees then they go through that soft release which is a really beautiful process and it&#8217;s really rewarding to see them once they&#8217;re out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To help supplement squirrels&#8217; food supply ahead of winter, the charity advised people to leave out nuts and seeds in extra tall feeders in their gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Bargit said caring for the squirrels is a &#8220;really demanding task&#8221;. &#8220;When they come in the vets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-189546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}