{"id":10631,"date":"2014-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/10631\/faan-likkewaan-relocates\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:05:43","slug":"faan-likkewaan-relocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/15\/faan-likkewaan-relocates\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Faan Likkewaan relocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The massive Water Monitor was rescued by emergency workers of the Steve Tshwete Fire Department after their help were called in by a group of boys who caught the reptile.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Selogiloe, from the Fire Department, said the monitor was found in an area known by locals as Burundi, between Gholfsig and Mhluzi.<\/p>\n<p>The Water Monitor, also known as a Nile Monitor, was transported to the Fire Department in a crate on the back of an emergency vehicle. The furious reptile swung his tail and made angry hissing noises at anyone who came too close.<\/p>\n<p>The SPCA was contacted to help with the relocation of the majestic monitor.<\/p>\n<p>After some planning on how to subdue the angry reptile without causing it further harm, it was decided to cover it with a blanket in an attempt to secure the crate cover without injuring the animal or its rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Department and SPCA officials worked together to get the animal back into the crate.<\/p>\n<p>See Video here:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/V6vTgD4ZnKY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>SPCA officials Petro Oberholzer and Sonika Oosthuizen took the clearly stressed animal to a place of safety, in the Kranspoort area.<\/p>\n<p>The animal lay dead still whilst they removed a rope tied to its body with a snake pole. As soon as he realized he was free, he sped off to a nearby pool of water and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>The water monitor is an estimated 1,5 metres long. It is very possible that it is the same water monitor that was spotted by several residents in Gholfsig and Clubville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive Water Monitor, most probably Faan Likkewaan, was relocated to a place of safety after he was caught by youngsters on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[21972,1420,1329,1421,1422],"class_list":["post-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-animals","tag-faan-likkewaan","tag-fire-brigade","tag-spcasa","tag-water-monitor"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["animals","Faan Likkewaan","fire brigade","SPCASA","water monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}