{"id":161,"date":"2010-10-28T14:07:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:31:29","slug":"sick-raccoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/field-notes\/sick-raccoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Raccoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in a small Florida town had to kill four<strong> raccoons<\/strong> in a week, after they were seen exhibiting <strong>signs of dysentery<\/strong>. All four adult <strong>animals<\/strong> were subsequently buried after police consulted with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. \u201cWe contacted FWC because these (<strong>raccoons<\/strong>) all had the same symptoms, like<strong> lethargy<\/strong> and just kind of walking around during the day,\u201d\u00a0said the police chief.<\/p>\n<p>The animals were all found within a half-mile of each other.<\/p>\n<p>FWC experts told\u00a0the chief\u00a0<strong>raccoons<\/strong> go through cycles of <strong>diseases<\/strong> and that what occurred in\u00a0there was likely part of the cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The chief\u00a0said the animals did not pose an immediate<strong> threat to humans<\/strong> but that the incident provided an opportunity to remind people <strong>not to approach wildlife<\/strong>, especially animals that appear to be acting in unusual ways, and instead to report such situations to their nearest law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;These raccoons all had the same symptoms, like lethargy and just kind of walking around during the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}