{"id":384835,"date":"2026-08-29T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384835\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:14:11","slug":"florida-officers-rescue-dog-trapped-in-drain-using-bucket-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384835\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officers rescue dog trapped in drain using bucket, cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Tampa police officers got creative Sunday night when they rescued a small dog trapped in a drain using cheese.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=+Tampa+Police+Department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Police Department<\/a>, officers responded around 9:20 p.m. and used a bucket, some cheese, and plenty of determination to get the pup to safety.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/violent-stabbing-leaves-1-dead-3-wounded-in-lake-worth-beach-lake-worth-beach-lake-worth-beach-stabbing-stabbing-deadly-stabbing-homicide-palm-beach-county-palm-beach-county-sheriffs-office-pbso-violent-crime-crime-breaking-news-florida-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Violent stabbing leaves 1 dead, 3 injured in Lake Worth Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dog was turned over to animal control and has since found its \u201cfur-ever\u201d home.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bucket-and-cheese technique may not be taught at the academy, but officers knew it was time to think outside the box to help the four-legged resident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Tampa police officers got creative Sunday night when they rescued a small dog trapped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-384835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}