{"id":373103,"date":"2025-11-12T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373103\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:25:10","slug":"illegally-kept-raccoon-removed-from-derby-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373103\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegally kept raccoon removed from Derby restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DERBY, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a racoon from a restaurant in Derby after an anonymous complaint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DEEP says the raccoon was being illegally kept at Bartone\u2019s Apizza and was removed on Oct. 28. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DEEP, the Department of Public Health, and Department of Agriculture say they are evaluating their next steps. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDEEP and DoAg remind residents that keeping raccoons and other wild animals as pets is against the law and can endanger people, pets, and the animals themselves,\u201d DEEP said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information on racoons in Connecticut from DEEP\u2019s wildlife team, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/deep\/wildlife\/fact-sheets\/raccoon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/deep\/wildlife\/fact-sheets\/raccoon\">CLICK HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information on rabies from the Department of Public Health, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/dph\/epidemiology-and-emerging-infections\/rabies?language=en_US\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/dph\/epidemiology-and-emerging-infections\/rabies?language=en_US\">CLICK HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DERBY, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a racoon from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[179567,2738,179565,51254,9247,167643,17495,179566,179568,137292,3649,42865,8463,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-373103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bartones-apizza","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-connecticut-department-of-energy-and-environmental-protection","11":"tag-ct","12":"tag-deep","13":"tag-department-of-agriculture","14":"tag-department-of-public-health","15":"tag-derby","16":"tag-doag","17":"tag-dph","18":"tag-rabies","19":"tag-racoon","20":"tag-restaurant","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115534831507081130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373103","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=373103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}