{"id":114086,"date":"2025-08-02T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114086\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:32:08","slug":"escaped-monitor-lizard-recaptured-after-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114086\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped monitor lizard recaptured after 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFIVE. ALL RIGHT DANNY, THANK YOU. MORE BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. THE FIVE FOOT LONG WATER MONITOR LIZARD THAT ESCAPED FROM HIS HOME IN WEBSTER TWO WEEKS AGO HAS BEEN FOUND. WEBSTER POLICE SAY GOOSE HAS BEEN CAPTURED. NO DETAILS YET ON WHERE OR H\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe five-foot-long water monitor lizard that escaped from his home in Webster two weeks ago has been found.Webster Police say Goose has been captured, although they did not immediately provide details on where or how.This type of lizard is native to south and Southeast Asia and is illegal to have as a pet in Massachusetts. They feed on invertebrates, carrion and smaller vertebrates. They can grow to about 8 feet and can live for more than 10 years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">WEBSTER, Mass. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The five-foot-long water monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/goose-lizard-websterl-massachusetts\/65573652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lizard that escaped <\/a>from his home in Webster two weeks ago has been found.<\/p>\n<p>Webster Police say Goose has been captured, although they did not immediately provide details on where or how.<\/p>\n<p>This type of lizard is native to south and Southeast Asia and is illegal to have as a pet in Massachusetts. They feed on invertebrates, carrion and smaller vertebrates. They can grow to about 8 feet and can live for more than 10 years, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Ecological-Risk-Screening-Summary-Common-Water-Monitor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIVE. ALL RIGHT DANNY, THANK YOU. MORE BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. THE FIVE FOOT LONG WATER MONITOR LIZARD THAT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[71795,71794,316,71796,2739,71793,10823,159,71797,3948,8374,47440,71798,67,132,68,63014,2452,837,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-114086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-carrion","9":"tag-goose","10":"tag-home","11":"tag-invertebrate","12":"tag-massachusetts","13":"tag-monitor-lizard","14":"tag-pet","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-small-vertebrate","17":"tag-south","18":"tag-southeast-asia","19":"tag-type","20":"tag-u-s-fish","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-webster","25":"tag-week","26":"tag-wildlife","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}