{"id":705718,"date":"2026-06-15T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:52:05","slug":"raccoons-freed-from-genesee-county-sewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705718\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoons freed from Genesee County sewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creature native to US, Canada known for its intelligence gets stuck, looks embarrassed, adorable<\/p>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be an unconventional necklace for a raccoon, it shouldn&#8217;t have been made to fit a raccoon. (WDIV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 Two raccoons that found themselves stuck in a sewer were freed by animal control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/features\/2024\/03\/12\/the-majestic-and-surprising-unifying-power-of-raccoons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/features\/2024\/03\/12\/the-majestic-and-surprising-unifying-power-of-raccoons\/\">The majestic and surprising unifying power of raccoons<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">It happened Friday, June 12, in Genesee County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Authorities said one raccoon had its head stuck in the center of the metal sewer grate and the other was trapped beneath it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">With the help of Genesee County Animal Care, the two raccoons were rescued safely and returned to the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2021\/06\/10\/harrison-township-fire-department-frees-raccoon-from-sewer-grate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2021\/06\/10\/harrison-township-fire-department-frees-raccoon-from-sewer-grate\/\">It\u2019s not the first time this has happened in Southeast Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorDane Kelly headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/team\/DaneKelly\/\" title=\"View Dane Kelly&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dane Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Dane Kelly is an Oreo enthusiast and producer who has spent the last seven years covering Michigan news and stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creature native to US, Canada known for its intelligence gets stuck, looks embarrassed, adorable If it wasn&#8217;t supposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[76007,79,201],"class_list":["post-705718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-genesee-county","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705718","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=705718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}