{"id":723047,"date":"2026-06-24T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723047\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:02:09","slug":"gracie-the-giraffe-has-gone-missing-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723047\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracie the giraffe has gone missing in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unclear how long Gracie has been missing from her ranch in Texas Hill Country.<\/p>\n<p>REAL COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Texas officials are on the lookout for a missing giraffe named Gracie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LOST GIRAFFE,&#8221; says the title of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02VLJtRRiZsAqxeEBkyseLTmYrCCxqsXDMn7hauqfPWuEM73m6zDhuDyGfntBh6mxZl&amp;id=61587483608515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a social media post<\/a> on Monday from the Real County Animal Rescue-Shelter, a nonprofit based in Camp Wood, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how long Gracie has been missing from the Cedar Hollow Ranch. The animal rescue said she was last seen on a game camera west of Leakey, which is west of San Antonio in Texas Hill Country.<\/p>\n<p>The only description for Gracie in the post is that she has &#8220;rounded ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vick Jones, manager of Cedar Hollow Ranch, told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/missing-giraffe-texas-gracie-rcna351474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBC News<\/a> that Gracie is 3 or 4 years old and has been at the property since May. She&#8217;s one of two giraffes at the ranch, which is home to a couple hundred animals, including impalas, Nubian ibexes and an antelope found in Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The owner is offering a reward of $5,000 for information leading to the capture and safe return of Gracie the giraffe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on Gracie&#8217;s whereabouts can call the Real County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 830-232-5201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s unclear how long Gracie has been missing from her ranch in Texas Hill Country. REAL COUNTY, Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-723047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723047","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=723047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}