{"id":187757,"date":"2026-03-03T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187757\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:25:08","slug":"a-dog-named-blackie-helps-rescue-kittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187757\/","title":{"rendered":"A dog named Blackie helps rescue kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; A small black dog has been keeping Border Patrol agents company by the river in Downtown El Paso. His name is Blackie.<\/p>\n<p>After becoming an icon to those he walked beside, he trusted them enough to ask for their help.<\/p>\n<p>One day Blackie brought a kitten from the riverbed to the agents, asking them to save it. The Border Patrol agents contacted Pawsitive Rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Washington, the organization\u2019s president, explained that where there is one kitten there are usually more.<\/p>\n<p>One of the agents searched along the riverbank and found the rest of the litter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve never seen this in 23 years of rescuing,\u201d said Karen Washington told ABC-7 during an interview. \u201cHe\u2019s a special boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Washington told ABC-7 that with the help of the Border Patrol agents, the team was able to capture Blackie.<\/p>\n<p>Today he receives his first bath in a long time and his first round of vaccines as he begins his journey to find a forever home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; A small black dog has been keeping Border Patrol agents company by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-187757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}