{"id":668654,"date":"2026-01-02T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668654\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:19:12","slug":"cornwall-raccoon-and-devon-seals-make-rspcas-top-2025-rescues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668654\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall raccoon and Devon seals make RSPCA&#8217;s top 2025 rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back in November, the charity said it was called to the village of Gwennap, Cornwall, after members of the public had spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1j86wkl64eo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an overweight raccoon<\/a> wandering the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When RSPCA officer Abi Kemp arrived to rescue the animal, she found it was three times the weight of a healthy raccoon at 11.2kg (2st 1lb).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, Ms Kemp said it was &#8220;a bit of a surprise to get a call about a raccoon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said: &#8220;Thanks to the kind members of the public, and a vet, the raccoon was safely captured and taken to RSPCA West Hatch Wildlife Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There he received the care he needed before heading off to a permeant home that could meet his need and the strict legal restriction on keeping them as pets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in November, the charity said it was called to the village of Gwennap, Cornwall, after members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-668654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115824765427237290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668654","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=668654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}