{"id":345771,"date":"2026-01-01T03:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345771\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:37:07","slug":"watch-escaped-wallaby-captured-on-return-to-new-jersey-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345771\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Escaped wallaby captured on return to New Jersey Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Dec. 31 (UPI) — A runaway wallaby spotted in the parking lot of a New Jersey Walmart store was safely captured when he made a return trip to the store.<\/p>\n

The Lots of Love Farm said in a Facebook post<\/a> that the wallaby, named Rex, was captured in the Williamstown Walmart parking lot Tuesday night.\n<\/p>\n

“If this just didn’t become the best night ever! With the help of some really cool kids and a really cool dad. We caught Rex at the Walmart!! He is home safe and sound! Thank you everyone you’re all amazing. He must really like Walmart,” the post said.<\/p>\n

The 3-year-old marsupial had escaped Monday<\/a> after being moved to a barn amid high winds. Owner Ron Layden said Rex’s cage inside the barn hadn’t been completely closed.<\/p>\n

Rex was caught on camera by multiple witnesses Monday when he made his initial visit to the Walmart parking lot.<\/p>\n

“I was just picking up milk for my little brother. My mom sent me here,” Klarissa Harper, who captured video of Rex on Monday, told WPVI-TV<\/a>. “And I’m leaving the parking lot, and I look over, and something’s hopping in front of my car.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 31 (UPI) — A runaway wallaby spotted in the parking lot of a New Jersey Walmart store…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,14104,66882,90,56,54,55,17658,4407],"class_list":["post-345771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}