{"id":357681,"date":"2025-11-05T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357681\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:08:12","slug":"watch-traffic-cone-used-to-rescue-struggling-raccoon-from-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357681\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Traffic cone used to rescue struggling raccoon from the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 4 (UPI) &#8212; A couple taking a sunrise walk along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina ended up using a traffic cone to rescue a raccoon struggling to swim.<\/p>\n<p>Will DeLeo and Elizabeth Heffron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/pets-animals\/2025\/11\/04\/good-samaritans-rescue-raccoon-from-drowning\/87076642007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were walking along the shore<\/a> in Charleston recently when they spotted a raccoon struggling in the water below.\n<\/p>\n<p>They watched as the exhausted animal tried without success to find an exit from the water, so they decided to step in and help.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQM9xQpCbx1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to Instagram<\/a> shows DeLeo bring a nearby traffic cone to the ledge and lower it into the water, allowing the raccoon to grab hold.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeo was finally able lift the raccoon back onto dry land after it slipped off the cone multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>The raccoon took a moment to rest on the ledge before running away from the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 4 (UPI) &#8212; A couple taking a sunrise walk along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3425,14764,14762,159,67,132,68,14763,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-357681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-weird","16":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115497723702028407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357681","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=357681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}