{"id":643398,"date":"2026-05-14T21:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643398\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:20:15","slug":"raccoons-rescued-at-ohio-metroparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643398\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoons rescued at Ohio Metroparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) \u2014 Eight baby raccoons were recently rescued at Five Rivers MetroParks in <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/tag\/dayton-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Deanna Flaugher was dispatched last week on a report of \u201csome suspicious bandits in one of the parks,\u201d the MetroParks wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fiveriversmetroparks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a Facebook post<\/a>. After some investigating, the eight raccoons were located in the road and moved to a safer area.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/news\/watch-cops-reunite-hamlet-the-pig-with-owner-in-dayton\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tWATCH: Cops reunite \u2018Hamlet\u2019 the pig with owner in Dayton\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fiveriversmetroparks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MetroParks shared<\/a> that the raccoons were found without their mother nearby. The parks say that doesn\u2019t mean that they were abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1536\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3662764\" data-id=\"3662764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Five-Rivers-MetroParks.jpg\"  \/>Photo courtesy of Five Rivers MetroParks<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3662763\" data-id=\"3662763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Five-Rivers-Metroparks-2.jpg\"  \/>Photo courtesy of Five Rivers MetroParks<a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The raccoons were acting friendly, but the park is reminding guests not to feed, touch or play with raccoons for safety. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) \u2014 Eight baby raccoons were recently rescued at Five Rivers MetroParks in Dayton. Sergeant Deanna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-643398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643398","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=643398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}