{"id":396780,"date":"2026-01-09T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:13:07","slug":"coyote-with-mange-seen-in-ferry-village-area-residents-urged-to-exercise-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396780\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote with mange seen in Ferry Village area; residents urged to exercise caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) \u2013 South Portland Police warn of \u201cmange\u201d on the rise among wild animals in the city, most recently seen in a coyote.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the increase is in the Ferry Village area, and that the coyote was healthy enough to run away.<\/p>\n<p>Animal control says the coyote was not aggressive and simply runs off when approached.<\/p>\n<p>If you see a wild animal that appears sick, police say to keep away, as stress can make it harder for animals to recover from mange.<\/p>\n<p>Police are also reminding pet owners to keep their pets up to date on monthly preventatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) \u2013 South Portland Police warn of \u201cmange\u201d on the rise among wild animals in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-396780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396780","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=396780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}