{"id":725454,"date":"2026-06-25T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725454\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:24:09","slug":"alligator-found-roaming-huntsville-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725454\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator found roaming Huntsville neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; Huntsville police find a large alligator roaming around a residential neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a brief detour through the neighborhood on Haysland Road, the gator made its way back to the preserve on its own.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Alligator found roaming Huntsville neighborhood\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/X5DO73KBIRDTJJBB3EBQP5WLCE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Alligator found roaming Huntsville neighborhood(HPD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials are warning residents to take precautions when they see wildlife in the city and to give them plenty of space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Never approach, handle, or feed wild animals, and contact the appropriate authorities if the animal appears injured or poses a safety concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Almost two weeks ago, WAFF 48 News covered a story on the same road about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2026\/06\/12\/alligators-spotted-near-huntsville-neighborhoods\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2026\/06\/12\/alligators-spotted-near-huntsville-neighborhoods\/\">an alligator in a local pond.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, it is unclear if this is the same alligator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; Huntsville police find a large alligator roaming around a residential neighborhood. After a brief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6619,20267,167570,36655,22947,79,312050,201],"class_list":["post-725454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alligator","tag-found","tag-hpd","tag-huntsville","tag-neighborhood","tag-science","tag-spoted","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725454","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=725454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}