{"id":189780,"date":"2026-03-13T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:49:08","slug":"bearded-dragon-wins-eckerd-colleges-first-pet-president-election-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189780\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearded dragon wins Eckerd College\u2019s first \u2018pet president\u2019 election &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter\u2019s campaign was led by his owner, Izzy Williams, who said the idea behind his run was to bring pets together across campus regardless of species.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScooter, as a cold-blooded animal on campus, really feels the divide between warm-blooded and cold-blooded pets,\u201d Izzy says jokingly. \u201cHe thought it was a good idea to rise to the occasion and unify all pets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Izzy, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/management\/business-administration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business administration<\/a> student from Jacksonville, Florida, managed Scooter\u2019s campaign and currently serves as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studentsofeckerd.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eckerd College Organization of Students<\/a> vice president of financial affairs. She is also running for ECOS president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis favorite activity is basking in the sun,\u201d Izzy adds. \u201cAnd a lot of Eckerd students also love to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonlinecurrent.com\/news\/eckerd-s-first-pet-president-has-been-elected-and-it-s-a-bearded-dragon\/article_696b58ca-e2b2-408f-883e-61d4d1e040d4.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> campaign season featured several pets<\/a> competing for the title, including a hamster named Franklin. At the ECOS town hall, Franklin rolled across the room on a small exercise ball while the ECOS cabinets shared updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scooter\u2019s campaign was led by his owner, Izzy Williams, who said the idea behind his run was to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[88717,88718,88719,2965,202,204,203,199,201,200,88720],"class_list":["post-189780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-ecos","tag-pet-life","tag-pet-president","tag-pets","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-triton-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}