{"id":397291,"date":"2026-01-29T18:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397291\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:17:26","slug":"badger-spotted-swimming-in-dorset-floodwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397291\/","title":{"rendered":"Badger spotted swimming in Dorset floodwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A badger has been spotted trying to cross a flooded road in Dorset.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was captured on camera by fire crews attending an incident on Slyers Lane in the Cokers Frome area of Dorchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were called at 12:04 GMT following reports that two vehicles were stuck in floodwater.  While there, they spotted the animal swimming across the road.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dorset &amp; Wiltshire Fire Service is warning people to only travel if necessary, and  not to drive through flood water, which &#8220;sometimes can be deeper than you think&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A badger has been spotted trying to cross a flooded road in Dorset. It was captured on camera&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-397291","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\/397291","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=397291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}