{"id":283266,"date":"2026-09-10T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283266\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:04:08","slug":"pittsburgh-police-rescue-coyote-stuck-in-between-two-walls-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283266\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police rescue coyote stuck in between two walls in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not expect to see a coyote in Oakland, but Pittsburgh Police Animal Control and Care officers say they recently had to rescue a not so wily coyote that got stuck between two walls in an alley. <\/p>\n<p>The animal control officers spent several hours working to free the coyote on Atwood Street which was then relocated to a wooded area outside the City.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the incident is a good reminder that coyotes can be found in urban areas and are especially active during the day. <\/p>\n<p>If you should cross paths with one, police say to try to look as large as possible and make noise to scare it. <\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t run, because that may trigger the coyote&#8217;s chase instinct. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may not expect to see a coyote in Oakland, but Pittsburgh Police Animal Control and Care officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11338,19905,73,75,74,745],"class_list":["post-283266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-animal-rescue","tag-coyote","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283266","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=283266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}