[Red Badger]

NY GATOR????....................

[teeman8r]

Albert, take to the sewers, now.

[fwdude]

It’s inhumane to the alligator to keep him in a tightly confined home pen. The guy is a selfish loser.

[logi_cal869]

Possession of an alligator as a pet, however, is also prohibited by New York State Law.

and

Cavallaro chalked his permit lapse to recent changes in DEC rules for alligator ownership.

don't mesh.

There's more to this horribly written & researched story, and - in consideration of the history of humans bonding with other animals (lions, tigers, bears...oh my) - dismissing this as the owner being 'mentally ill' is rather simpleton.

[FLT-bird]

Uhhh...that's not THE Albert the Alligator. This is:

[jmcenanly]

I think that I’d sleep a lot better knowing that there wasn’t a 750 pound predator loose in my home.

[I want the USA back]

He already was an emotional wreck. Definitely not right in the head to believe that the huge set of jaws can be a pet.

[Rockingham]

Here's a true Florida Man story I heard years ago from a friend who knew the Florida Man involved.

A minor hurricane blew through the area north of Naples in Southwest Florida. A young single man with a love of nature lived on some acreage in a traditional wood frame house on stilts close to the Estero River. The hurricane winds and tidal surge did not damage his house, but it did leave a small alligator dazed and near dead in the yard, hooked and tangled up in fishing line.

Taking pity, Florida Man removed the hook and line and put the alligator in a large steel tub with some water and bait minnows. Florida Man then went off to work. On his return, he was satisfied to see that the alligator had revived and eaten the minnows.

Over the course of several years, the alligator outgrew the tub and minnows diet and was then put in a fenced enclosure with a pond. The gator thrived on a diet of raw chicken parts every afternoon.

Florida Man realized of course that the gator needed to be back in the wild, so he took it out of the enclosure and put it in the river -- only to have the gator still turn up every afternoon insisting on chicken dinner before he would return to the river.

The ordinary course of such a story would have Florida Man coming to grief because of feeding a wild alligator. This was not to be in that Florida Man died in a traffic accident. And for years afterwards, canoeists on the Estero River had to beware of a large alligator that would bump into canoes expecting a sandwich or other food.

[BipolarBob]

We're so sorry, uncle Albert
We're so sorry if we caused you any pain
We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But there's no one left at home
And I believe I'm gonna rain

[AF_Blue]

Attention New York state tax-payers: thanks to the state of New York, you're covering the bill for the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to confiscate a 34-yearold alligator from his caretaker, an extensive examination and initial rehabilitation by a vet in Massachusetts (implying transportation costs to and from vet), and transportation to an “authorized alligator rehabilitation facility” in Beaumont, Texas, to be housed at Gator Country Adventure Park (wouldn't a facility in Florida make more sense?).

You voted for this.

[This I Wonder32460]

Yes, Albert the alligator, was heartbroken that his future plans for making a meal of his human pal were stopped by animal control.

[Organic Panic]

Gotta love government. Always there to protect ourselves from ourselves.

It is like reading a story where a family rescues a deer only to have the government show up, kill the deer, to protect the deer.

[Mr. Blond]

Lizards don’t have emotions. This guy is like a woman who thing nature is a Disney movie.