{"id":425627,"date":"2026-09-04T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425627\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:54:11","slug":"191-turtles-and-tortoises-found-in-unusual-shipment-at-north-texas-fedex-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425627\/","title":{"rendered":"191 turtles and tortoises found in unusual shipment at North Texas FedEx office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t a typical day for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/denton\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City of Denton Animal Services<\/a> when a local FedEx Office called about an unusual attempted shipment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Business not as usual,&#8221; the shelter said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>According to the shelter, the local FedEx office reached out after discovering an attempted shipment containing 191 turtles and tortoises.<\/p>\n<p>The shelter immediately took the animals into custody and temporarily housed them while notifying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2turtles.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"2turtles.jpg \" height=\"620\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Denton Animal Services<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A big thank you to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for their quick support and partnership,&#8221; the shelter said.<\/p>\n<p>The animals were later transferred to the Dallas Zoo, where they are now safely housed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This unusual rescue is just one example of how our animal services team supports the community,&#8221; the shelter said. &#8220;We&#8217;re grateful for the strong partnerships with our animal welfare colleagues, who help us coordinate responses in unique situations like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t a typical day for the City of Denton Animal Services when a local FedEx Office called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-425627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425627","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=425627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}