{"id":589648,"date":"2026-04-17T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:26:16","slug":"beaver-from-saratoga-springs-becomes-internet-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589648\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver from Saratoga Springs becomes internet sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 A 2-year-old, one-eyed beaver in Saratoga County has been capturing international attention online. She has over a million followers across different platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.<\/p>\n

Bo, at 49 pounds\u2014if you can believe it\u2014is still growing. She is a baby. The largest beaver in North America ever found weighed 110 pounds.<\/p>\n

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Beyond videos of Bo just doing beaver things, her unique relationship with her rescuer, Alexis Bross, is extremely captivating.<\/p>\n

Bross and her family run Wild for Life, a rescue for orphaned and injured animals.<\/p>\n

Bo was rescued as a very young baby during a flood and shortly afterward lost her eye to an infection, making her unreleasable.<\/p>\n

Bross stresses that despite their deep bond, Bo is not a pet. She\u2019s still a wild animal and a state- and federally licensed educational ambassador.<\/p>\n

That includes visits to schools, libraries, and even breweries.<\/p>\n

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Right now, Bo is preparing for the Beaver Ball, the rescue\u2019s annual fundraising gala, and she\u2019s definitely used to being the guest of honor.<\/p>\n

She was even the ring bearer at Alexis and her husband Eric\u2019s wedding in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n

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Meet Bo by watching Julia Dunn\u2019s \u201cPositively Upstate\u201d story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 A 2-year-old, one-eyed beaver in Saratoga County has been capturing international attention online. She has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-589648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589648","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=589648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}