{"id":420128,"date":"2026-07-31T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420128\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:30:08","slug":"san-francisco-pitbull-rescued-after-two-days-trapped-in-railway-tunnel-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420128\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco pitbull rescued after two days trapped in railway tunnel | San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A two-year-old pitbull who ran away from home braved two days in a dim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-francisco\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> railway tunnel before being rescued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Caltrain operators spotted the pup named Roo on his first day in the tunnel. Looking at the dog\u2019s unmoving body, they had assumed he had been fatally struck by a train, according to a recent social media post from the San Francisco animal care and control shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">On the second day, after Roo was seen moving, police officers set out on foot in the tunnel with a flashlight.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrain operators helping the pup named Roo. Photograph: San Francisco Department of Animal Care &amp; Control<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">They found Roo, lying curled next to a rail track, and led the dog out of the dark into the light of day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cHe was terrified at first, then was thrilled to be rescued,\u201d the animal shelter wrote in the post. The pup is a recent adoptee, who ran away after being \u201cspooked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Fortunately, Roo was microchipped. He has since been reunited with his owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The San Francisco area has rallied around other dogs in distress as of late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Menlo Park firefighters rescued a missing dog that was found swimming in the San Francisco Bay, as seagulls followed in pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-year-old pitbull who ran away from home braved two days in a dim San Francisco railway tunnel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-420128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420128","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=420128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}