https://www.goerie.com/story/news/local/2024/08/05/alligator-in-lake-erie-authorities-investigate-reported-sighting-erie-pa/74673922007/

It will be moving pretty slow come wintertime. Maybe it's a snow bird, er...snow reptile in this case. 😉

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/08/reports-of-alligator-in-ottawa-county-lake-use-whatever-caution-you-feel-is-appropriate.html
 

Here’s another Michigator

I can’t help but think @Zcoker had something to do with this. 

There was a gator in the susky a few years ago. 

Can you spell hoax?

1 minute ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Can you spell hoax?

Definitely 

34 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Can you spell hoax?

Why are you thinking hoax?

 

A small town about 15 minutes from me had an alligator in a drainage pond two years ago. People get them, they grow up, and get let go.

@12poundbass The report said a 4-6 foot gator. People keep 12” gators as pets but to many still keep 4-6 footers. A gator can not survive in Erie based on water temps more than a few months. Hoax.

There was one in the water here in sevierville and the cops showed up and shot it 😂 

 

I appreciated their no nonsense approach 

@Texas Flood  oh no, busted! lol reminds me of the movie Jaws, when those kids were swimming with a shark fin over their heads. 

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

There was one in the water here in sevierville and the cops showed up and shot it 😂 

 

I appreciated their no nonsense approach 

Someone dumped a gator in a Chicago pond a few years back. The city hired a gator hunter from FL to get rid of it.

3 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

@12poundbass The report said a 4-6 foot gator. People keep 12” gators as pets but to many still keep 4-6 footers. A gator can not survive in Erie based on water temps more than a few months. Hoax.

There’s no doubt it won’t survive our winters and the one “spotted” in the article I posted said it won’t survive. People will do crazy things including building an area in their house to keep an alligator. If I remember right there was a guy down south recently who dedicated his whole basement or garage to keeping an alligator and the thing was huge. It was eventually confiscated and people threw a fit because it was his “pet”. Again….people are crazy and I won’t put anything past them. 😁

I had a caiman growing up. When she got over 3 feet long, we gave her to my high school science class(they used to have a gator when my mom was in HS). 

 

My parents had all types of animals when I was a kid. It was pretty cool.