{"id":197734,"date":"2025-10-13T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:21:07","slug":"braybrooke-womans-relief-after-runaway-skunk-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197734\/","title":{"rendered":"Braybrooke woman&#8217;s relief after runaway skunk rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The owner of a &#8220;very bright, very capable&#8221; pet skunk with a history of disappearances said she was &#8220;so excited&#8221; that it had been rescued after more than four months on the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mammal, named Dominika, was found in Nassington, Northamptonshire, earlier this month having escaped from its home in Braybrooke, about 25 miles away, on 28 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dominika&#8217;s owner, Jayne McLaughlin, explained that the 16-month-old creature had previously ran off to Market Harborough &#8211; three miles away &#8211; and Corby &#8211; 10 miles away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms McLaughlin, who has six other pet skunks, said she feared Dominika would struggle to find water after prolonged dry weather this summer, but had been recovered &#8220;in good condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of a &#8220;very bright, very capable&#8221; pet skunk with a history of disappearances said she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-197734","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\/197734","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=197734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}