{"id":287972,"date":"2026-04-27T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:17:10","slug":"suspected-dog-attack-wipes-out-long-beach-penguin-colony-near-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287972\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected dog attack wipes out Long Beach penguin colony near Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Acting operations manager for Coastal Otago Chris Hankin is appealing for information from the public as the department investigates the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Solin said it\u2019s \u201cpretty much the whole population of our penguin colony down here\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe whole population wiped out in one go is just, yeah, gutting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Solin said despite the Department of Conservation signage, \u201cwe still get heaps of people coming down with dogs and just letting them off\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">While Solin suspected the dog\u2019s owner had been busy climbing the rocks or fishing, she said there had also been a spate of roaming dog attacks in the area recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey have had issues over in P\u016br\u0101kaunui just across the hill with the penguins being attacked over there,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had dog issues here with stock getting injured or killed from roaming dogs here. In the last 18 months, there\u2019s been three attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acting operations manager for Coastal Otago Chris Hankin is appealing for information from the public as the department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16034,1794,174,27642,123288,2899,123286,123287,972,18659,131,133,132,123285,2967,71596,25627,22713,123284,1557],"class_list":["post-287972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-aftermath","tag-attack","tag-beach","tag-colony","tag-discover","tag-dog","tag-dunedin","tag-gutting","tag-local","tag-long","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-near","tag-out","tag-penguin","tag-says","tag-suspected","tag-wipes","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}