{"id":313901,"date":"2026-10-25T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313901\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:38:08","slug":"pittsburgh-cat-rescue-vandalized-shelters-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313901\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh cat rescue vandalized; shelters destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh cat rescue says someone destroyed their shelters, threw out their food bowls and vandalized their space. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cPittsburgh Hill District Cats\u201d says volunteers had permission to set up the shelters in someone\u2019s private home. While the homeowner is currently in the hospital, two volunteers check on the cats every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The group says they recently got threats from neighbors who oppose the colony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe will not be intimidated, however. While we work this out with the appropriate authorities, we are committed to replacing the shelters so the cats have a place to go this winter,\u201d the volunteers said in a post to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The rescue has created an Amazon wish list if you\u2019d like to help them rebuild. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/3CJ30LEN8YPM?ref_=wl_share&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawVI-X1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMVk4dFVEaXhmWFRMS1NxRkNzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEedrIFtx3uVHsECeHNYfs88etz_oJNkhpi6eCFCEaUuP4ho_SalPWmDN0pK8s_aem_4pA6FtOm3YuRH59weJMWNA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/3CJ30LEN8YPM?ref_=wl_share&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawVI-X1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMVk4dFVEaXhmWFRMS1NxRkNzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEedrIFtx3uVHsECeHNYfs88etz_oJNkhpi6eCFCEaUuP4ho_SalPWmDN0pK8s_aem_4pA6FtOm3YuRH59weJMWNA\">Click here to access that list.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh cat rescue says someone destroyed their shelters, threw out their food bowls and vandalized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,757],"class_list":["post-313901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wpxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313901","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=313901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}