{"id":473505,"date":"2026-02-14T01:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473505\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:34:17","slug":"watch-kangaroo-on-the-loose-in-colorado-was-insta-famous-wallaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473505\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8216;Kangaroo&#8217; on the loose in Colorado was Insta-famous wallaby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Feb. 12 (UPI) &#8212; Colorado sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to a report of a &#8220;kangaroo&#8221; on the loose in a residential neighborhood and found a wallaby with an Instagram following.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Douglas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUoO3OBj5W0\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on social media<\/a> that deputies &#8220;recently responded to a call no one had on their bingo card &#8212; a kangaroo on the run in a Highlands Ranch neighborhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They arrived in the neighborhood to find the animal was already being returned home by its owners.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Turns out the suspect was Charlie the Wallaby, who is very much real and very well known (yes, he has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chuck_wallaby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his own Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> his own Instagram<\/a>),&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The deputies were welcomed into the owners&#8217; home to visit with Charlie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lie, this is going to be the highlight of my year,&#8221; a deputy says in body camera footage.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12 (UPI) &#8212; Colorado sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to a report of a &#8220;kangaroo&#8221; on the loose in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,5731,192505,66,1942,168038,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-473505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-residential-neighborhood","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-social-media","14":"tag-wallaby","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}