{"id":1033672,"date":"2022-03-25T01:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-michigan-woman-finds-loose-kangaroo-in-her-driveway\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T01:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:14:44","slug":"watch-michigan-woman-finds-loose-kangaroo-in-her-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-michigan-woman-finds-loose-kangaroo-in-her-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Michigan woman finds loose kangaroo in her driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michigan-woman-finds-loose-kangaroo-in-her-driveway.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"09FOI7wlzMI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kangaroo spotted in Lapeer County after escaping his exotic pet owner\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09FOI7wlzMI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 24 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Michigan woman captured video outside her home when she came across an unbelievable sight &#8212; a kangaroo on the loose in her driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Greer said she spotted the animal in her Lapeer County yard Tuesday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just walking down the driveway &#8212; not walking, hopping up and down the driveway, and it was eating something,&#8221; Greer told WJBK-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Greer said she was unsure of what to do about the Australian animal, so she called 911.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say I&#8217;m located in southern Lapeer County and there is a pause and she responds &#8216;Ma&#8217;am, are you sure it&#8217;s a kangaroo?&#8217; and I said, &#8216;Yes, I&#8217;m sure,'&#8221; Greer recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The dispatcher reported the marsupial to Lapeer County Animal Control, but Greer said she later learned the kangaroo&#8217;s owner safely recaptured it.<\/p>\n<p>Greer said she spoke with the owner of the kangaroo and learned the animal&#8217;s name is Douglas.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness, Alex McCarty, captured video of Douglas hopping through a cemetery before being recaptured. She posted the footage to TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Greer said she is happy she captured video of the animal, because even her own husband found the story hard to believe.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m trying to convince him not to get another dog but a kangaroo,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24 (UPI) &#8212; A Michigan woman captured video outside her home when she came across an unbelievable sight &#8212; a kangaroo on the loose in her driveway. Sara Greer said she spotted the animal in her Lapeer County yard Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;Just walking down the driveway &#8212; not walking, hopping up and down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}