{"id":351879,"date":"2026-06-26T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351879\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:53:12","slug":"emu-loose-after-escaping-north-texas-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351879\/","title":{"rendered":"Emu loose after escaping North Texas home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/v-missing-emu-9a_00.00.23.30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LANCASTER, Texas &#8211; Earlier this week, a giraffe went missing in Central Texas. Now, an emu is on the loose in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Temu the emu escaped from the Bear Creek area in Lancaster, just south of Dallas. He was last seen near Parkerville Road and Interstate 35.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He is about 15 months old and is fully grown.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Temu\u2019s owner told FOX 4 that she has already reached out to the local authorities and several animal groups for help.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We still haven\u2019t located him. I just got home from walking the fields and woods again. I\u2019m just praying he\u2019s okay,&#8221; Aleta Cronce said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Cronce said she raised Temu by hand with another female emu, who is currently very distraught.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We are so worried about his safety,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 4&#8217;s Lauren Przybyl gathered information for this story by talking to emu owner Aleta Cronce.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/lancaster\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lancaster<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.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":"article LANCASTER, Texas &#8211; Earlier this week, a giraffe went missing in Central Texas. Now, an emu is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[581,116,118,117,1340,223,5163,216,393],"class_list":["post-351879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dallas-county","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-lancaster","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351879","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=351879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}