{"id":37791,"date":"2025-07-04T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37791\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:12:09","slug":"child-bit-by-fathers-pet-kangaroo-at-far-northwest-side-home-acs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37791\/","title":{"rendered":"Child bit by father\u2019s pet kangaroo at far Northwest Side home, ACS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 San Antonio Animal Care Services (ACS) is investigating after an 11-year-old boy was bitten by his father\u2019s kangaroo in their backyard, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The boy suffered at least one bite to his back last week in the 15000 block of Watchers Way on the far Northwest Side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KSAT reached out to ACS for the boy\u2019s condition, but the agency said it has no information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The child\u2019s father was cited with multiple criminal violations for keeping the red male kangaroo, a prohibited species, as a pet, the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The citations include possession of a prohibited animal within city limits, failure to obtain the required permit to keep the animal, failure to provide proof of current rabies vaccination and responsibility for an animal bite incident, according to ACS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio law prohibits residents from owning certain \u201cwild animals,\u201d including kangaroos, primates, big cats and bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The kangaroo was placed into a state-mandated quarantine for 30 days. ACS said they are working with state authorities to determine the next steps after the animal\u2019s quarantine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 San Antonio Animal Care Services (ACS) is investigating after an 11-year-old boy was bitten by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9490,18477,7202,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-37791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-acs","9":"tag-northwest-side","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114794433332888637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791","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=37791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}