{"id":373,"date":"2015-07-09T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:41","slug":"australian-zoo-keepers-combat-wombat-obesity-by-walking-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/australian-zoo-keepers-combat-wombat-obesity-by-walking-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Zoo Keepers Combat Wombat Obesity By Walking Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoo keepers at Queensland\u2019s Rockhampton Zoo started taking their wombats on harness walks, as you would a dog, in order to keep them in good health.<\/p>\n<p>The walking program all started when Donna, a 20-year-old southern hairy nosed wombat needed to lose some weight to relieve pressure from her damaged hip.<\/p>\n<p>The plan worked well, so the zoo keepers decided that all of the wombats could use a daily harness walk.<\/p>\n<p>Yvette, the zoo\u2019s team leader, stated: \u201cThey are loving it.\u201d Additionally, she commented that: \u201cWe only bring them for a walk if they\u2019re already up and about \u2026 we don\u2019t wake them up.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_374\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wombat-on-a-lead.jpg\" alt=\"Wombat on a lead\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wombat-on-a-lead.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wombat-on-a-lead-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australia Trends \/ Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoo keepers at Queensland\u2019s Rockhampton Zoo started taking their wombats on harness walks, as you would a dog, in order to keep them in good health. The walking program all started when Donna, a 20-year-old southern hairy nosed wombat needed to lose some weight to relieve pressure from her damaged hip. The plan worked well, so the zoo keepers decided that all of the wombats could use a daily harness walk. Yvette, the zoo\u2019s team leader, stated: \u201cThey are loving it.\u201d Additionally, she commented that: \u201cWe only bring them for a walk if they\u2019re already up and about \u2026 we <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}