{"id":812436,"date":"2026-10-24T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:54:09","slug":"washington-wetland-centres-last-otter-coming-to-terms-with-dad-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812436\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Wetland Centre&#8217;s last otter &#8216;coming to terms&#8217; with dad death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An otter has been getting extra treats and attention as he starts &#8220;coming to terms&#8221; with the death of his father, staff have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buster is now the only otter at Washington Wetland Centre, near Sunderland, after his dad Musa died at the age of 17 last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Living collections manager Mark Tabone said the duo had a &#8220;typical father and son dynamic&#8221; and did everything together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are hopes to find Buster a companion, but until then &#8220;he&#8217;s got his members that come and see him every week and he knows his familiar faces,&#8221; Tabone said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;ll definitely guide him through this grieving process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the &#8220;amazing outpour&#8221; of support from the public following Musa&#8217;s deaths was helping staff, as well as Buster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think seeing all the amount of love that Musa had has really perked the team up and made us think it wasn&#8217;t just us that loved him, it was everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An otter has been getting extra treats and attention as he starts &#8220;coming to terms&#8221; with the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-812436","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\/812436","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=812436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}