{"id":347288,"date":"2026-06-23T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:29:23","slug":"giraffe-escapes-texas-ranch-fox-7-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347288\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffe escapes Texas ranch | FOX 7 Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LEAKEY, Texas &#8211; A giraffe is on the lamb after escaping Texas ranch Monday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0RxphoQMwqTrJofFQYjunRoDzrRDurpdosHUmoSpvqbme3y2eMZyfyfe6FjMPGfqFl&amp;id=61587483608515&amp;rdid=PhZ9njos3jB33qMc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook post<\/a> made by the Real County Animal Rescue-Shelter, the giraffe named Gracie disappeared from the Cedar Hollow Ranch.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gracie was last spotted on a game camera west of Leakey, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gracie-giraffe.jpg\" alt=\"An image of Gracie the giraffe was shared by authorities after the animal went missing June 22, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">An image of Gracie the giraffe was shared by authorities after the animal went missing June 22, 2026.  (Real County Animal Rescue-Shelter\/Facebook \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Vick Jones, who manages the ranch, told FOX Local that Gracie has been located. He\u2019s hopeful she\u2019ll be back at the ranch sometime Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;She\u2019s a little farther (away) than I\u2019d like her to be,&#8221; Jones said, when asked where Gracie had been found.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Jones said they have had giraffes at the ranch for at least 30 years. He said Graice wandered into a part of the ranch where the giraffes hadn\u2019t gone before and was able to get out of a gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEAKEY, Texas &#8211; A giraffe is on the lamb after escaping Texas ranch Monday. What we know: According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,5163,216,393],"class_list":["post-347288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}