{"id":346529,"date":"2026-01-01T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346529\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:58:08","slug":"cornwall-raccoon-and-devon-seals-make-rspcas-top-2025-rescues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346529\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall raccoon and Devon seals make RSPCA&#8217;s top 2025 rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back in November, the charity said it was called to the village of Gwennap, Cornwall, after members of the public had spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1j86wkl64eo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an overweight raccoon<\/a> wandering the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When RSPCA officer Abi Kemp arrived to rescue the animal, she found it was three times the weight of a healthy raccoon at 11.2kg (2st 1lb).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, Ms Kemp said it was &#8220;a bit of a surprise to get a call about a raccoon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said: &#8220;Thanks to the kind members of the public, and a vet, the raccoon was safely captured and taken to RSPCA West Hatch Wildlife Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There he received the care he needed before heading off to a permeant home that could meet his need and the strict legal restriction on keeping them as pets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in November, the charity said it was called to the village of Gwennap, Cornwall, after members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-346529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346529","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=346529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}