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Title: Alligator returned to zoo after woman stole it and raised it as a pet for 20 years
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URL Source: https://nypost.com/2023/03/07/stole ... d-to-texas-zoo-after-20-years/
Published: Mar 7, 2023
Author: Isabel Keane
Post Date: 2023-04-07 19:00:38 by BTP Holdings
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Alligator returned to zoo after woman stole it and raised it as a pet for 20 years By Isabel Keane March 7, 2023 12:45pm Updated See you later, alligator! An eight-foot alligator taken from a Texas zoo 20 years ago by a volunteer who raised it as a pet has been returned to the zoo, officials said. Texas Parks and Wildlife officials discovered the massive gator at a home in Buda, south of Austin, while investigating another case nearby. The woman who stole the alligator had been a volunteer at Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo in New Braunfels over two decades ago the zoo said in a video posted Friday. Investigators believe the woman, who kept the alligator in her backyard as a “pet,” either stole an alligator egg or hatchling. “Alligators will have a nest of 50, 60 eggs at a time. So it would have been very easy for someone to take an egg or a hatchling home just kind of without anyone noticing,” Jarrod Forthman, the director of Animal World & Snake Farm told KSAT. Game Wardens said the alligator was healthy and well cared for but had outgrown the woman’s backyard. Poster Comment: Pics at source.
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Has anyone ever eaten gator tail? I have and it is yummy. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Had one as a pet. 60 Years ago you could buy one for a Dollar at Tourist Traps along Route 66. Took him out to play, one Hot day in the Texas Panhandle. Forgot and left him in my red wagon...................
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