A Detroit woman found an unexpected surprise after burying her son over the weekend: a large alligator in her son’s bedroom.<\/p>\n
According to Mark Rosenthal of Animal Magic, the nearly six-foot alligator was discovered confined to a tiny aquarium, with no water, heat, light, or space.<\/p>\n
Rosenthal, known locally as a \u201cgator wrangler,\u201d said the woman called him about the alligator Tuesday morning. He said he found the gator living in poor conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt had no room to move,\u201d Rosenthal said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how it\u2019s in this good of shape. It was in horrible conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wildlife expert took the exotic animal to an animal sanctuary. The gator will become a Florida resident when it relocates to a multi-million-dollar sanctuary in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
Rosenthal said the Animal Magic team receives more calls about alligators than any other animals in Michigan, despite it being both illegal and dangerous to keep them.<\/p>\n
Given the circumstances, he gave his new friend a fitting name: \u201cNavi-gator,\u201d after it got lost in Detroit following the rescue.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Pennsylvania man\u2019s emotional support alligator made headlines after being spotted at a Walmart. The store has since banned the animal, but the owner says she\u2019s welcome almost everywhere else.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Detroit woman found an unexpected surprise after burying her son over the weekend: a large alligator in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[214,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-396247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-michigan","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115591694443234284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396247","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=396247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}