{"id":3054,"date":"2025-07-22T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/baby-raccoon-rescued-from-engine-compartment-of-semi-truck\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:25:11","slug":"baby-raccoon-rescued-from-engine-compartment-of-semi-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/baby-raccoon-rescued-from-engine-compartment-of-semi-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby raccoon rescued from  &#039;engine compartment&#039; of semi-truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-22 12:25:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A baby raccoon was rescued from the &#8220;engine compartment&#8221; of a semi-truck.<BR><br \/>\nThe Arapahoe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Colorado said in an Instagram post on Monday (21.07.25) that the critter slept in the section of the vehicle.<BR><br \/>\nAfter &#8220;not being happy&#8221; with being woken up by Animal Services Officer Wylde, it clutched onto the catch pole and was pulled out to safety &#8211; unharmed.<BR><br \/>\nThe baby raccoon has returned to its natural habitat, following the incident on July 15.<BR><br \/>\nCaptioning a photo of the creature holding on to the catch pole from inside the engine compartment of the semi-truck, as well as outside on the grass, the Arapahoe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wrote: &#8220;On July 15 at 10:30 am, Animal Services Officer Wylde rescued this little critter, who was stuck in the engine compartment of a semi-truck. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The baby raccoon was sleeping (these guys are nocturnal) and wasn&#8217;t exactly happy about being woken up, but it eventually grabbed onto the catch pole and was pulled out safely and unharmed. We&#8217;re happy to report the raccoon was returned to its natural habitat.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-22 12:25:09 A baby raccoon was rescued from the &#8220;engine compartment&#8221; of a semi-truck. The Arapahoe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Colorado said in an Instagram post on Monday (21.07.25) that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}