July 28 (UPI) — A water monitor lizard that escaped from its owner’s home in Massachusetts was spotted a week later across the state border in Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Police in Webster, Mass., said the 5-foot lizard, named Goose, escaped from his owner’s home July 18 by jumping out from a second-story window.\n<\/p>\n
Monitor lizards are not legal to keep<\/a> as pets in the state without a permit, and authorities said Goose’s owner did not have the required paperwork.<\/p>\n Goose was spotted Friday in Thompson, Conn., about 5 miles from Webster. Town officials said the monitor was seen in the Little Pond area of Wilsonville Road and Thompsonville Road.<\/p>\n “This animal is owned illegally, and it is important to call animal control as soon as there is a spotting so we can capture it. We do have a reptile specialist we are working with,” Thompson Animal Control said in a social media post<\/a>. “If you spot this reptile, please immediately contact animal control or the police department.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 28 (UPI) — A water monitor lizard that escaped from its owner’s home in Massachusetts was spotted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":["post-43942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}