{"id":434654,"date":"2026-02-19T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434654\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:38:07","slug":"meet-the-cute-otter-cubs-rescued-after-being-found-in-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434654\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the cute otter cubs rescued after being found in a car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were put in a cardboard box and were kept at Karen&#8217;s house in a makeshift otter hotel, with towels and food advised by the UK Otter Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen said: &#8220;They were so tired, just sleeping &#8211; we knew they&#8217;d been about the village for at least 14 hours so it was no surprise they seemed shattered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The community in Skelmorlie had by then contacted the SSPCA, who came to collect the two tiny cubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s thought that they&#8217;re female otters, both about nine or 10 weeks old, and have been named Valentine and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen is really proud of how everyone worked together to help the small creatures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are a big community here and everyone here loves nature, so we all worked as a team to help them&#8230; I was just lucky enough to get the nice job of babysitting!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They were put in a cardboard box and were kept at Karen&#8217;s house in a makeshift otter hotel,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-434654","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\/434654","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=434654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}