{"id":611765,"date":"2026-05-30T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611765\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:50:08","slug":"polecat-rescued-from-roadside-after-mum-hit-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611765\/","title":{"rendered":"Polecat rescued from roadside after mum hit by car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A young polecat is being nursed back to health at a wildlife hospital after it was found clinging to his dead mother and sibling by the roadside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A member of the public found the dehydrated polecat with the bodies of his family  after they were hit by a car in the village of Alwalton, Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rescuers from the Wildlife Rescue and Emergency Network then took in the animal for the night before he was taken to Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital in Kibworth Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amy Blower, an animal care team leader at the hospital, said the young polecat, also known as a kit, would be trained how to survive and hunt before being released back into the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young polecat is being nursed back to health at a wildlife hospital after it was found clinging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-611765","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\/611765","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=611765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}