{"id":133367,"date":"2025-11-13T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/133367\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:36:12","slug":"look-baby-alligator-captured-in-bostons-charles-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/133367\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Baby alligator captured in Boston&#8217;s Charles River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 13 (UPI) &#8212; An alligator spotted this week in the Charles River in Boston was safely captured by the owner of an animal education business.<\/p>\n<p>The alligator, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2025\/11\/12\/alligator-Charles-River-Boston\/9281762963470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was caught on camera<\/a> by at least two separate witnesses earlier in the week, was captured Wednesday night by Joseph Kenney, owner of Joe&#8217;s Crazzy Critters.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kenney said he had just wrapped an interview with NBC10 Boston when he received new information about a sighting of the reptile, so he rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was tucked into some reeds, kind of along the edge there, in about a foot-and-a-half of water,&#8221; Kenney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/boston-charles-river-alligator\/3844536\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told NBC10<\/a>. &#8220;He was just tucked in and laying on the bottom.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>He posted photos of the safely-wrangled baby gator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ-uZVfDLrN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=045ef6e6-6969-423e-8606-f5476c5c4d4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to Instagram.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the cold temps, the alligator had very low chances of surviving,&#8221; Kenney wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney said he is hoping to give the small reptile a new permanent home as an animal ambassador for Joe&#8217;s Crazy Critters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was able to capture him safely and he will be warm and housed until we get more information and instructions on what&#8217;s next for this little guy,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The alligator&#8217;s origins remain unknown. Kenney said it will be examined by a veterinarian on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 13 (UPI) &#8212; An alligator spotted this week in the Charles River in Boston was safely captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,5593,111,139,69,5591,147,5592,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-133367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-odd","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-weird","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}