{"id":458743,"date":"2026-09-09T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458743\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:59:18","slug":"video-shows-chp-officer-rescue-kitten-from-busy-sacramento-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458743\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows CHP officer rescue kitten from busy Sacramento freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frightened kitten stranded along a busy Sacramento freeway was scooped to safety by a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer \u2013     with the rescue captured on body camera.<\/p>\n<p>The kitten was spotted Sunday morning along westbound Business 80 near Fulton Avenue, CHP North Sacramento said.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the officer performing a traffic break to stop vehicles before getting off his motorcycle and walking toward the center median.<\/p>\n<p>With the freeway temporarily clear, the officer knelt down and grabbed the kitten, which was small enough to fit in one hand, before carrying it back across the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll leave the cats stuck in trees to our friends at the fire department,&#8221; CHP quipped in a post about the rescue. &#8220;This rescue was a little more in CHP&#8217;s wheelhouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A passerby had called 911 after spotting the kitten along the freeway, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The kitten was safely removed from the roadway and is now being cared for by the family who initially reported seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>CHP did not say how the kitten ended up along the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frightened kitten stranded along a busy Sacramento freeway was scooped to safety by a California Highway Patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[23493,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-458743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-north-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458743","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=458743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}