{"id":552,"date":"2015-10-19T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/?p=552"},"modified":"2025-07-09T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:36","slug":"these-heroes-redefine-catfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/these-heroes-redefine-catfishing\/","title":{"rendered":"These Heroes Redefine \u201cCatfishing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two Alabama fisherman on the Warrior River were surprised by a kitten swimming toward their boat. After extracting the soggy and very happy kitten from the water, they were shocked to see another kitten jump into the water and swim quite a distance to the boat as well. We hope these two heroes welcome these little survivors into their homes and hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Catfishing&quot; on the Warrior River\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8WFqM9wMrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Definitely a bigger commitment than the typical catch, but totally worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- banner ad -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7178535257\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Alabama fisherman on the Warrior River were surprised by a kitten swimming toward their boat. After extracting the soggy and very happy kitten from the water, they were shocked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,33,34,32],"tags":[146,54,36,55,64,18],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-heroes","category-animal-news","category-animal-tales","category-animal-videos","tag-animal-news","tag-animal-rescues","tag-cats","tag-faith-in-humanity-restored","tag-heartwarming","tag-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/catfishing-Screenshot.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}