{"id":276569,"date":"2025-11-07T04:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276569\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:46:15","slug":"wildcats-escape-cricket-wildlife-center-in-pennsylvania-after-enclosure-damaged-by-fallen-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276569\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats escape Cricket Wildlife Center in Pennsylvania after enclosure damaged by fallen tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">DISTRICT TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Three wildcats escaped from a Pennsylvania wildlife center due to damage from a wind storm on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened at the Cricket Wildlife Center in District Township, Berks County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to a Facebook post from the center, a tree fell on a pen housing the African servals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Photos show portions of the fence were crushed, allowing the cats to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials at the center want the public to know the cats are not a danger to children or pets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Please do not harm them,&#8221; the Facebook post reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In fact, the center said, the animals are older and &#8220;their ability to care for themselves is not good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If you see the wildcats, you are asked to call the Cricket Wildlife Center at 717-381-9893.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DISTRICT TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Three wildcats escaped from a Pennsylvania wildlife center due to damage from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[147072,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-276569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-147072","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276569","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=276569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}