{"id":307256,"date":"2026-10-15T14:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307256\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:58:36","slug":"cat-shot-in-leg-in-berks-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307256\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat shot in leg in Berks | State"},"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":307257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[694,125992,125988,2600,349,8438,695,125991,125990,19621,19617,19618,125993,125987,86407,125994,19620,19619,1856,6575,6577,109264,125989,1224,20070,128,130,129,6579,220,6580,125986,24641,5531],"class_list":["post-307256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-models","tag-animal-taxa-named","tag-animals","tag-berks-county","tag-cat","tag-cats","tag-cosmopolitan-mammals","tag-cosmopolitan-vertebrates","tag-domesticated-animals","tag-domestication","tag-ethnobiology","tag-felids","tag-feliforms","tag-felines","tag-felis","tag-human-animal-interaction","tag-humans-and-other-species","tag-law-enforcement","tag-law-enforcement-agencies","tag-law-enforcement-organizations","tag-mammals","tag-model-organisms","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-public-services-of-the-united-states","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-regional-law-enforcement-agencies","tag-shooting","tag-state-law-enforcement-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-state-police-united-states","tag-union-township","tag-zoology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307256","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=307256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}