{"id":413006,"date":"2026-08-21T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413006\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:26:10","slug":"north-richland-hills-police-rescue-exotic-animal-from-the-brutal-texas-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413006\/","title":{"rendered":"North Richland Hills Police rescue exotic animal from the brutal Texas heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Richland Hills police officers rescued a small exotic animal found seeking shade from the Texas heat Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to Rufe Snow Drive and Loop 820 after reports of a kangaroo or monkey was seen outside a local business. Officers say they found the unique animal overheated and thirsty.<\/p>\n<p>Officers Davis, Little and Lund safely caught the animal and turned it over to North Richland Hills Animal Services, which is helping it recover.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are now working to find the animal\u2019s owner or a facility that can provide the specialized care it needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Richland Hills police officers rescued a small exotic animal found seeking shade from the Texas heat Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,20538,10144,27,172],"class_list":["post-413006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-exotic-animals","tag-north-richland-hills","tag-texas","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413006","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=413006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}