{"id":96847,"date":"2025-08-20T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96847\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:01:08","slug":"skunk-rescued-after-getting-stuck-in-bowl-at-skatepark-in-reading-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96847\/","title":{"rendered":"Skunk rescued after getting stuck in bowl at skatepark in Reading, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 19, 2025 5:23PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Skunk rescued after getting stuck in bowl at skatepark in Reading, Pennsylvania\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man used a skateboard attached to a dog leash to lift a skunk to safety after the critter got stuck inside a bowl at a Reading skatepark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB eTIW sUzSN ebVHC \">READING, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; This is what you call a precarious animal rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Galvin says she was out walking her dog in Reading, Pennsylvania, over the weekend when she stumbled across this: A man who was trying to rescue a skunk.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was stuck at the bottom of a skating bowl.<\/p>\n<p>So, the man lowered a leash attached to a skateboard for the skunk to grab.<\/p>\n<p>Once he pulled it to safety, the skunk simply trotted away with the leash and the skateboard. <br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, August 19, 2025 5:23PM A man used a skateboard attached to a dog leash to lift a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-96847","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\/96847","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=96847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}