{"id":388344,"date":"2025-09-01T02:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388344\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T02:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:29:11","slug":"watch-hope-the-tiny-abandoned-otter-is-rescued-by-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388344\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018Hope\u2019 the tiny abandoned otter is rescued by sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" class=\"attachment-single-entry size-single-entry wp-post-image\" alt=\"WATCH: \u2018Hope\u2019 the tiny abandoned otter is rescued by sanctuary\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/otter2-1024x663.jpg\" data- data-uk-img=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hope the rescued otter cub.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny abandoned otter cub has been rescued by sanctuary carers who have named her Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday (Saturday) received reports of a young otter left alone in a South Whiteness garden.<\/p>\n<p>By the morning, the cub had made her way to an outhouse where she was curled up on a pile of hay.<\/p>\n<p>Carers from the sanctuary drove down to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>They arrived to find the \u201ctiny wee otter cub\u201d curled up and making little squeaks, clearly missing her mum.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After carefully picking the cub up and taking her back to the sanctuary, they managed to persuade her to drink milk from a bottle.<\/p>\n<p>The carers believe the tiny otter may only be three weeks old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping an otter this age alive after she\u2019s been abandoned by mum is a real challenge and demands round the clock attention,\u201d the sanctuary said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, so good. She has managed to suck from the bottle and seems to be settled, but it will be a few days (and nights) before we can be confident that she will make it through the trauma she has just been through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s hoping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary\u2019\u2019s chief carer Lynn Young has named the cub Hope.<\/p>\n<p>People who wish to support the sanctuary can visit www.hillswickwildlifesanctuary.org\/donate\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hope the rescued otter cub. A tiny abandoned otter cub has been rescued by sanctuary carers who have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[729,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-388344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-nature","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115126689223451338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}