{"id":347712,"date":"2026-06-23T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:17:50","slug":"giraffe-loose-in-the-texas-hill-country-reward-offered-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347712\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffe loose in the Texas Hill Country, reward offered \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rancher in the Texas Hill Country is offering a sizeable reward to the person who helps him recover his missing giraffe.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media on Monday, the Real County Animal Shelter-Rescue said<\/a> “Gracie” had escaped her home at Cedar Hollow Ranch and was last seen on a game camera roaming in an area west of Leakey.<\/p>\n

The Real County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to NBC 5 on Tuesday afternoon that the search for Gracie is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Aside from a photograph and a description of “rounded ears,” no other information about Gracie was provided.<\/p>\n

The shelter said in the post that the giraffe’s owner, Vick Jones, was offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the giraffe’s capture and safe return.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, two giraffe calves missing from the Natural Bridge Zoo in Virginia<\/a> were safely located after being reported missing about a year ago.<\/p>\n

Leakey and Real County, Texas, are located about 75 west-northwest of San Antonio and 125 miles west-southwest of Austin. Anyone with information about Gracie’s location can contact Vick Jones at 830-279-5822 or the Real County Sheriff’s Office at 830-232-5201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rancher in the Texas Hill Country is offering a sizeable reward to the person who helps him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,27],"class_list":["post-347712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347712","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=347712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}