{"id":1967,"date":"2025-10-15T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1967\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:15:13","slug":"skunk-rescued-after-getting-stuck-in-bowl-at-skatepark-in-reading-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Skunk rescued after getting stuck in bowl at skatepark in Reading, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Skunk rescued after getting stuck in bowl at skatepark in Reading, Pennsylvania\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man used a skateboard attached to a dog leash to lift a skunk to safety after the critter got stuck inside a bowl at a Reading skatepark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB eTIW sUzSN ebVHC \">READING, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; This is what you call a precarious animal rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Galvin says she was out walking her dog in Reading, Pennsylvania, over the weekend when she stumbled across this: A man who was trying to rescue a skunk.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was stuck at the bottom of a skating bowl.<\/p>\n<p>So, the man lowered a leash attached to a skateboard for the skunk to grab.<\/p>\n<p>Once he pulled it to safety, the skunk simply trotted away with the leash and the skateboard. <br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man used a skateboard attached to a dog leash to lift a skunk to safety after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}