{"id":82801,"date":"2026-01-09T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:53:08","slug":"woman-dog-electrically-shocked-while-on-run-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82801\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, dog electrically shocked while on run in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c9281cafaed1a6decf2caad84c48072e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The City of Pittsburgh is investigating how a woman and her dog were electrically shocked while on a run in the Strip District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened on the sidewalk along Smallman Street near the intersection with 11th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman, Montana Mitchell, posted photos and her story to social media Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This isn\u2019t the first time a dog has been shocked or electrocuted while being walked in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Channel 11\u2019s Andrew Havranek spoke with the mayor\u2019s office. What they say was recommended to the city after a 2024 incident that was never done under the previous administration, coming up on Channel 11 News at 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Pittsburgh is investigating how a woman and her dog were electrically shocked while on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18251,2697,2662,41687,73,75,74,39343,2731],"class_list":["post-82801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-channel-11-news","tag-city-of-pittsburgh","tag-dog","tag-montana-mitchell","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-smallman-street","tag-strip-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82801","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=82801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}