{"id":307248,"date":"2026-10-15T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:35:54","slug":"cat-shot-in-leg-in-berks-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307248\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat shot in leg in Berks | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police said a cat was shot in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>State police said troopers were sent to a home on Center Road in Union Township shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A woman said her cat returned home with a limp on Oct. 5 after it was gone all day, state police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A veterinarian later removed a .22-caliber bullet from the cat\u2019s leg, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>State police said they do not know who shot the cat at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police said a cat was shot in Berks County. State police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[694,349,8438,1224,128,130,129,220,24641],"class_list":["post-307248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-berks-county","tag-cat","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shooting","tag-union-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307248","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=307248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}