MCGREGOR, Texas (KWTX) – A McGregor rescue is now asking the community for help after taking in a severely malnourished ringtail lemur with several broken bones.<\/p>\n
The lemur, named Soa, is just 1 year old. Ringtail Ranch Lemur Rescue Director Jeanna Treider said the organization has more than 80 lemurs, and 95% of them were surrendered or rescued. <\/p>\n
Rescue says lemurs often surrendered<\/p>\n
According to Treider, it is legal to own a lemur in Texas, but the biggest mistake people make is not researching the animals before buying one.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople get them teeny tiny, they\u2019re the cutest thing, you can\u2019t imagine their razor sharp teeth when they\u2019re full grown and just out of the blue they\u2019ll flip a switch and attack,\u201d Treider explained.<\/p>\n
She says what most people don\u2019t realize is that lemurs taken from their parents too soon become aggressive later in life.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery owner who has surrendered a lemur has said \u2018I wish I had only known,\u2019\u201d Treider said.<\/p>\n
Severely malnourished and broken bones<\/p>\n
Treider says Soa was purchased from an unlicensed breeder or facility, her owner then selling her to someone else. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat individual had her for less than a week and said it wasn\u2019t working out and took her back to the previous owner,\u201d Treider explained.<\/p>\n
Soa\u2019s original owner noticed something was wrong and took her to the vet, where they discovered the extent of her injuries and contacted Ringtail Ranch<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s in really rough shape,\u201d Treider said. \u201cBroken bones, broken fingers, broken teeth.\u201d <\/p>\n Soa\u2019s injuries were severe enough that Treider says they had to consider humane euthanasia, but ultimately decided to give her a chance to fight.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s one year old, she is a very strong spirit and so we will do whatever we need to do to get her on the right track,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n Soa is currently at the vet receiving around-the-clock care and has a long road ahead of her, but Treider assures that from now on she will know what it is to be safe and loved. <\/p>\n Treider said there is an active investigation. If you would like to help, a gofundme<\/a> has been set up for Soa\u2019s vet bills. You can also visit https:\/\/www.ringtailranch.com\/<\/a> to donate. <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MCGREGOR, Texas (KWTX) – A McGregor rescue is now asking the community for help after taking in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[368349,368347,368346,79,368348,201],"class_list":["post-875113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-exotic-animal-rescue-texas","tag-mcgregor-lemur-rescue","tag-ringtail-ranch-lemur-rescue","tag-science","tag-soa-the-ringtail-lemur","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875113","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=875113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}