{"id":286692,"date":"2025-11-12T04:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286692\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:56:09","slug":"illegally-kept-raccoon-removed-from-derby-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286692\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegally kept raccoon removed from Derby restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DERBY, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a racoon from a restaurant in Derby after an anonymous complaint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DEEP says the raccoon was being illegally kept at Bartone\u2019s Apizza and was removed on Oct. 28. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DEEP, the Department of Public Health, and Department of Agriculture say they are evaluating their next steps. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDEEP and DoAg remind residents that keeping raccoons and other wild animals as pets is against the law and can endanger people, pets, and the animals themselves,\u201d DEEP said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information on racoons in Connecticut from DEEP\u2019s wildlife team, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/deep\/wildlife\/fact-sheets\/raccoon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/deep\/wildlife\/fact-sheets\/raccoon\">CLICK HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information on rabies from the Department of Public Health, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/dph\/epidemiology-and-emerging-infections\/rabies?language=en_US\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/dph\/epidemiology-and-emerging-infections\/rabies?language=en_US\">CLICK HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DERBY, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a racoon from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[150986,2000,150984,49683,20244,140123,4512,150985,150987,110310,39142,5000,19447,79,201],"class_list":["post-286692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bartones-apizza","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-department-of-energy-and-environmental-protection","tag-ct","tag-deep","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-department-of-public-health","tag-derby","tag-doag","tag-dph","tag-rabies","tag-racoon","tag-restaurant","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286692","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=286692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}