{"id":536780,"date":"2026-04-17T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:17:08","slug":"otter-caught-by-vets-after-closeburn-garden-centre-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536780\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter caught by vets after Closeburn garden centre &#8216;break-in&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Williamson, from the garden centre, told BBC Scotland News that CCTV showed the otter coming in at about 12:30 on Monday, and having a &#8220;sniff and a wander&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It then headed to the top corner of the premises &#8211; probably to sleep &#8211; concealed under a shelf until the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It then reappeared at six in the morning to have a wander and its breakfast with a munch on some dog food and bird seed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was discovered when the shop was opened at nine o&#8217;clock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said they did not initially realise what had caused the disarray in the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Williamson, from the garden centre, told BBC Scotland News that CCTV showed the otter coming in at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-536780","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\/536780","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=536780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}