{"id":461665,"date":"2026-10-09T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:34:14","slug":"texas-dps-trooper-rescues-injured-owl-off-i-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461665\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS trooper rescues injured owl off I-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791588854_44_owl4-e1791584748795.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"> ((Credit: Texas Department of Safety))<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas state trooper had a &#8220;hoot&#8221; of a day on Thursday after spotting an injured owl along I-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-dps-trooper-rescues-injured-owl-off-i-10\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The Texas Department of Safety said Trooper Raymond Torres found the owl in the center median of the interstate while on patrol near Van Horn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Torres stopped to check on the injured bird and looked after the owl until Texas Parks and Wildlife could arrive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Photos showed the owl spending some time in the front passenger seat of Torres\u2019 patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  (Credit: Texas Department of Safety)<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-dps-trooper-rescues-injured-owl-off-i-10\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Texas Parks and Wildlife eventually took the owl to the El Paso Zoo, where he will be receiving medical treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-dps-trooper-rescues-injured-owl-off-i-10\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">&#8220;As a trooper, you never know what each day will bring,&#8221; the Texas Department of Safety wrote in a social media post. &#8220;Moments like this remind us why strong partnerships with other state agencies and the community are so important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from a Facebook post by the Texas Department of Safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ((Credit: Texas Department of Safety)) AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas state trooper had a &#8220;hoot&#8221; of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,5163,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-461665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461665","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=461665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}