{"id":563114,"date":"2026-03-26T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:36:09","slug":"a-pants-wearing-kangaroo-is-on-the-loose-in-wisconsin-and-cops-need-help-to-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563114\/","title":{"rendered":"A pants-wearing kangaroo is on the loose in Wisconsin and cops need help to find it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toodaloo kangaroo! <\/p>\n

A kangaroo is on the loose<\/a> in central Wisconsin, and authorities are asking the public for help locating the missing marsupial. <\/a><\/p>\n

Chesney the kangaroo \u201cpulled a full-on prison break\u201d from Sunshine Farm petting zoo in Necedah, about 90 miles north of Madison, the Juneau County Sheriff\u2019s Office said<\/a> in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n

The runaway roo was last seen \u201cbouncing through the area of 23rd & 9th like he\u2019s training for the Olympics,\u201d authorities said. <\/p>\n

Photos of Chesney shared online show him sporting a stylish pair of denim pants, but his owners wrote on social media that he made a break for it without his pants.<\/p>\n

\"AA pants-wearing kangaroo escaped from a petting zoo in Wisconsin, and police are asking the public for help finding the missing marsupial (Juneau County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n

Chesney\u2019s worried owner said he got \u201cspooked and got out of his enclosure\u201d just after noon on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

She had been out with a drone searching for him both Wednesday and Thursday, but hadn\u2019t had any luck locating him as of Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n

On the Sunshine Farm Facebook page<\/a>, Chesney\u2019s owner notes there had been several sightings of the kangaroo making off in different directions. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe could be anywhere,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have his diaper on right now, so he blends in with the woods,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Chesney is \u201clikely scared, so please be careful with him. Please don\u2019t challenge him to a boxing match,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Photos on the petting zoo\u2019s social media show several other animals, but none quite as exotic as a kangaroo. Owning a kangaroo is legal in Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

A runaway kangaroo named Sheila also made headlines after escaping from her enclosure in Alabama last August. <\/p>\n

Sheila was spotted hopping along the side of Interstate 85 until her owner was able to capture her using a tranquilizer dart. <\/p>\n

Despite the drama, Sheila made it home safely after getting checked out at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine. <\/p>\n

While her family runs a petting zoo, Sheila was a personal pet, her owner told the Associated Press last year. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-563114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563114","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=563114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}