{"id":139683,"date":"2026-03-16T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139683\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:56:09","slug":"dog-rescued-from-septa-train-platform-in-west-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139683\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog rescued from SEPTA train platform in West Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small dog named &#8220;Dottie&#8221; is safe after getting trapped on a SEPTA train track beam at the 63rd and Market platform Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses saw the dog, a small black Shih Tzu mix, running along the tracks Sunday evening before getting stuck on top of one of the support pillars. SEPTA police contacted ACCT Philly&#8217;s Animal Protection officers, who, with the help of SEPTA maintenance workers, brought in a cherry picker to reach the stranded pup.<\/p>\n<p>In a rescue video posted to ACCT Philly&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acctphilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>, Animal Protection Officer Kevin says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t jump, bud,&#8221; before getting close enough to pull the visibly shaken dog to safety with a leash and a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/new-yt-thumbnail-5.png#.png\" alt=\"Dottie the Shih Tzu rescued from a SEPTA train platform \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Dottie the Shih Tzu rescued from a SEPTA train platform<\/p>\n<p>                ACCT Philly<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re incredibly relieved that this little dog is safe,&#8221; ACCT Philly said in a statement. &#8220;We&#8217;re grateful to SEPTA Police and SEPTA maintenance for working with our team to ensure she could be rescued safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once Dottie is evaluated by ACCT Philly&#8217;s medical team, she will be placed on a 48-hour stray hold and then be available for adoption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small dog named &#8220;Dottie&#8221; is safe after getting trapped on a SEPTA train track beam at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2618],"class_list":{"0":"post-139683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-septa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}