{"id":716266,"date":"2026-06-20T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:18:08","slug":"dog-goes-viral-for-bringing-live-armadillo-into-familys-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716266\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog goes viral for bringing live armadillo into family&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oklahoma family was sent into a panic when its Golden Retriever strolled through the door with an unexpected guest \u2014 a live armadillo dangling from its mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Matriarch Alycia Napier of Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZN_JuUhM6-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared an Instagram video<\/a> of the harrowing moment \u2014 captured by her home security camera \u2014 and it quickly shot viral fame with over 38 million views.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Although her children can be seen running and screaming in the clip, telling their pup Bingo to drop the animal, the brazen pooch still enters the residence, and comes back out \u2014 without the armadillo.<\/p>\n<p>Napier, who posted the initial video on June 5, shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZVsvipB8Nj\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second video<\/a> a few days later, to give an update on the situation, explaining that Bingo went back into the home, retrieved the armadillo, and brought it outside again.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd stood there looking at me like, \u2018What do you want me to do with it?\u201d\u2019 said Napier.<\/p>\n<p>Bingo eventually dropped the armadillo, which scurried away to her neighbor\u2019s yard.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she\u2019s sure the creature will return, since armadillos have been \u201ctearing up\u201d her yard for months. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oklahoma family was sent into a panic when its Golden Retriever strolled through the door with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2681,4136,1068,79,194,2600,201],"class_list":["post-716266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-instagram","tag-pets","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716266","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=716266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}