{"id":103490,"date":"2025-08-23T04:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103490\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:52:07","slug":"voting-opens-to-name-maymonts-second-porcupette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103490\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting opens to name Maymont&#8217;s second porcupette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cms-textAlign-left\">RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 The community can now cast their vote for the name of Maymont&#8217;s second porcupette.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Porcupette fever continues! In the month since we announced the a<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvr.com\/news\/local-news\/maymont-porcupines-july-21-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rrival of the two female baby porcupines<\/a> at The Robins Nature Center, we&#8217;ve seen a surge of visitors to watch the little darlings eat, play and grow in their special nursery room there,&#8221; the nature center shared. &#8220;One porcupette was already named Sandy by a generous Maymont donor, so we asked Richmond to help us name Sandy&#8217;s little buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of over 110 suggested names, Maymont has selected five for the final vote:<\/p>\n<p>QuillmaRizzoPricklesBarbSallie<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/maymont.org\/porcupette-naming-poll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to vote for your favorite name on the Maymont website<\/a>. Voting will be open through Thursday, August 27. The winning name will be revealed on Saturday, September 6, at The Robins Nature Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">CBS 6 is committed to sharing community voices on this important topic. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvr.com\/news\/local-news\/mailto:newstips@wtvr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Email your thoughts to the CBS 6 Newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">\ud83d\udcf2: CONNECT WITH US<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cbs6-richmond.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blue Sky <\/a>| <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CBS6News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook <\/a>| <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cbs6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram <\/a>| <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBS6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X <\/a>| <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@cbs6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Threads <\/a>| <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cbs6_rva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok <\/a>| <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTVRCBS6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 The community can now cast their vote for the name of Maymont&#8217;s second porcupette. &#8220;Porcupette&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[10344,10345,10346,79,5148,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-103490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-chesterfield-county","9":"tag-henrico-county","10":"tag-richmond","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-virginia","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}