{"id":71464,"date":"2026-04-11T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/washington-officials-say-21-dead-canines-that-washed-ashore-were-foxes-solving-local-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:57:54","slug":"washington-officials-say-21-dead-canines-that-washed-ashore-were-foxes-solving-local-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/washington-officials-say-21-dead-canines-that-washed-ashore-were-foxes-solving-local-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington officials say 21 dead canines that washed ashore were foxes, solving local mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animals were used legally as fishing bait, sheriff\u2019s office confirms after incident shook locals in Guemes Island<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-state\">Washington<\/a> state sheriff\u2019s office says it has solved the mystery of nearly two dozen dead canines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/dead-canines-washington-state\">who washed ashore recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The animals were foxes being used legally as bait for fishing operations, the Skagit county sheriff\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SkagitCountySheriffsOffice\/posts\/pfbid02u9LcAEByPYf2ai1hYFLKWN5MJz9CoheY7RpFG9AfoBibyh2UdHaQnVVnszcwhvoSl\">said<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/11\/washington-dead-canines-foxes-found-washed-ashore\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals were used legally as fishing bait, sheriff\u2019s office confirms after incident shook locals in Guemes Island A Washington state sheriff\u2019s office says it has solved the mystery of nearly two dozen dead canines who washed ashore recently. The animals were foxes being used legally as bait for fishing operations, the Skagit county sheriff\u2019s office &#8230; <a title=\"Washington officials say 21 dead canines that washed ashore were foxes, solving local mystery\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/washington-officials-say-21-dead-canines-that-washed-ashore-were-foxes-solving-local-mystery\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Washington officials say 21 dead canines that washed ashore were foxes, solving local mystery\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}