{"id":173508,"date":"2025-08-25T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:08:12","slug":"san-antonio-crews-rescue-acs-officers-and-baby-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173508\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio crews rescue ACS officers and baby geese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No injuries were reported by the officers or the geese. <\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Baby geese and San Antonio Animal Care Services officers were rescued Sunday after a &#8220;slippery situation&#8221; at Woodlawn Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ACS was originally called to a bird rescue after a resident reportedly saw a group of geese running around the dam spillway, looking trapped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ACS officers were apparently &#8220;greeted&#8221; by the Mama goose with a &#8220;string of angry honks.&#8221; Apparently the mother was not happy about strangers scooping up her children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, the ACS officers quickly tied a rope off, got a net and rappelled down the embankment to retrieve the geese one by one in a carrier. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After grabbing all the geese, the ACS officers realized they were stuck due to their algae-covered boots and the steep, slick walls, so the ACS officers called San Antonio Park Police and San Antonio Fire for an &#8220;unusual&#8221; rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SAPD and SAFD responded and set up an extension ladder, helping the ACS officers climb to safety with the geese.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported and the geese later waddled off into the lake with their mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/15BPJf4Rnxb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ACS posted on Facebook<\/a> thanking SAPD and SAFD for their assistance in helping not only the geese but the ACS officers as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you see an animal in need, please make a report to ACS by dialing 3-1-1 or visiting online at <a href=\"http:\/\/saacs.info\/311?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExTkxYbUxnVkpreGJsZmJSSwEeP4jadIrsAbyfwdM1JXMAG9a39FKLyphMZ3dg-HkuhVsQeKAVmiVQVCmU8vM_aem_SlXuAMI5pFlsgmjKywxSXQ\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saacs.info\/311<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bd4eecce-5994-4a89-97a9-f6a63e7ba2e7_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bd4eecce-5994-4a89-97a9-f6a63e7ba2e7_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No injuries were reported by the officers or the geese. SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Baby geese and San Antonio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-173508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115087678336113063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}