{"id":130566,"date":"2026-01-12T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130566\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:38:10","slug":"tenants-abandon-7-foot-lizard-in-alameda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130566\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenants abandon 7-foot lizard in Alameda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/614439895_1204455861820548_1266486065813219508_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">A 7-foot ornate Nile monitor, a type of lizard, climbs the window inside an abandoned Alameda home. Photo: Alameda police\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">ALAMEDA, Calif. &#8211; Former tenants left a 7-foot lizard, called an ornate Niles monitor, behind in their home, Alameda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlamedaPD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police announced on Monday.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police dispatchers were called about it, and they, in turn, called animal control, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The lizard was large and aggressive, but police said they were able to devise a plan to get the reptile safely to the East Bay Vivarium.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The lizards, which can often be confused with Komodo dragons, have powerful bites, strong claws, and forceful tails that can cause injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police said that Ornate monitors, native to West and Middle Africa, are not suitable for beginner reptile keepers and are never appropriate pets for children.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police posted photos of the lizard, who was seen climbing up a window on Venetian blinds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Alameda police did not state if they were going to track down the former tenants, who left the lizard behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615148994_1204456058487195_4448082475700374068_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Tenants left behind a 7-foot ornate Nile monitor, a type of lizard, in an abandoned Alameda home. Photo: Alameda police\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/alameda\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A 7-foot ornate Nile monitor, a type of lizard, climbs the window inside an abandoned Alameda home.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5445,389,1184,100,143,145,144,7700,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-130566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda","9":"tag-alameda-county","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-pets-animals","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}