{"id":57542,"date":"2023-03-16T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57542"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:14:29","slug":"weird-critter-keeps-triggering-the-security-system-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/03\/weird-critter-keeps-triggering-the-security-system-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird critter keeps triggering the security system at night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A creepy little critter has taken a liking to set off the security system at a Lehigh Acres home.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean Gordon was fast asleep early Sunday morning when all of a sudden his phone buzzed with a notification. When he picked it up, he could barely believe his drowsy eyes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a human hand and I was like, \u2018Hold on. Let me watch it again,\u2019\u201d Gordon said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was quite the wake-up call, especially for 1:40 a.m. Quite frankly, it was the last thing he expected to see moving in his backyard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThen I said, \u2018That looks like an octopus,\u2019\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a little closer to a guess, but still not there yet. Nonetheless, it was enough to intrigue Gordon enough to share the video on Facebook, asking anyone to help figure out what exactly the critter could be. However, his interest really sparked the next night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cubantreefrog.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57543\" width=\"309\" height=\"309\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe second video was from around front,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cThat\u2019s when he stopped and I saw the leg and I think the eye. You could see the frog\u2019s legs, big eye.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that the creepy critter is actually a tree frog, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/wildlifehabitats\/nonnatives\/amphibians\/frogs-and-toads\/cuban-treefrog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cuban tree frog<\/a>&nbsp;to be exact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The little frog that freaked Gordon out can actually climb. It\u2019s usually trees, but they\u2019re found all over, according to experts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creepy little critter has taken a liking to set off the security system at a Lehigh Acres home.\u00a0 Dean Gordon was fast asleep early Sunday morning when all of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57545,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57542\/revisions\/57545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}