{"id":576066,"date":"2026-04-10T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:40:07","slug":"wallaby-captured-after-being-on-the-loose-in-dayton-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576066\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaby captured after being on the loose in Dayton \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">DAYTON \u2014 UPDATE: <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The wallaby on the loose in Dayton has been captured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The wallaby was located near the Montgomery County Job &amp; Family on S Edwin C Moses Blvd, according to scanner traffic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">We are working to learn more and will continue to follow this story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">INITIAL REPORT: <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Authorities are searching for a loose wallaby in Dayton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Around 8:30 a.m., a wallaby was reported on the loose on Fourth and Perry Street, according to a Montgomery County Regional Dispatch supervisor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The wallaby was at Sinclair College before it got loose, according to dispatch notes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The animal was originally said to be a kangaroo, but is actually a wallaby, which is smaller than a kangaroo and a member of the kangaroo clan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">We will continue to follow this story and update as we learn more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON \u2014 UPDATE: The wallaby on the loose in Dayton has been captured. The wallaby was located near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14144,16904,101881,124992,2697,79,253254,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-576066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-dayton","10":"tag-kangaroo","11":"tag-loose","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wallaby","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576066","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=576066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}