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Police find pet alligator inside Detroit home amid wellness check
CBS News ^ | JULY 08, 2024 | DeJanay Booth-Singleton

Posted on 07/10/2024 7:13:24 AM PDT by Red Badger

(CBS DETROIT) — On Monday, Police in Detroit were called to a home to complete a wellness check and found a pet alligator.

Police said a man was found dead inside the home on the city's east side. Also inside was a caged alligator and a German shepherd.

Detroit Animal Care and Control arrived and removed the animals, which appeared to be OK and had been there for weeks.

Police said the alligator was taken to the Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary in Athens, Michigan. The man's cause of death is currently unknown and will be determined by the medical examiner.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
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1 posted on 07/10/2024 7:13:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: dfwgator; TexasGator; EEGator; alligator; FamiliarFace; Fireone; V_TWIN; Clay Moore

Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary in Athens, Michigan?...............


2 posted on 07/10/2024 7:13:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Who knew?


3 posted on 07/10/2024 7:14:14 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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“The man’s cause of death is currently unknown and will be determined by the medical examiner.”

It’s possible that drugs were involved in some way.


4 posted on 07/10/2024 7:14:44 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Pointing out hypocrisy is meaningless to the Left; they don't have principles, they have goals. )
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To: FamiliarFace

I knew Climate Change would do this!.................


5 posted on 07/10/2024 7:15:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Michigan’s New Favorite State Pet.


6 posted on 07/10/2024 7:17:24 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If President Trump loses, ALL AMERICANS LOSE. Vote like your life depends upon it. Because it does.)
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To: Red Badger

Change is sometimes the only constant.


7 posted on 07/10/2024 7:18:46 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well I’m a Gator and a Detroit Lions fan, so that’s close enough.


8 posted on 07/10/2024 7:20:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.
9 posted on 07/10/2024 7:54:10 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do)
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To: Red Badger

Let me see. Man in the house. Alligator in the house. What ever could go wrong?


10 posted on 07/10/2024 8:17:28 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Red Badger

Fascinating.


11 posted on 07/10/2024 8:18:35 AM PDT by xoxox
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Well, they have sewers in Michigan.


12 posted on 07/10/2024 10:49:51 AM PDT by DPMD (.)
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At least they have one.

From time to time alligators are found in Wisconsin, in particular down around Kenosha.

This doesnt seems to make a lot of sense unless little Snappy McGee is doing some training for the animal olympics marathon team.

The earliest reports of some really large (12’+) are suspected to be escapees from circus trains when the circuses would often take time off in Baraboo.

But that was a long time ago even for an alligator.

The more recent ones seem to be someone from Chicago taking their 4-5’ bathtub pet to “the wilderness” of Wisconsin and letting it go.

Theres no way of knowing how many just freeze to death but from time to time a live one is found by a deer hunter or someone else exploring the swampy area down there.


13 posted on 07/10/2024 11:22:21 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: Red Badger

Nick Lowe’s “Marie Provost” comes to mind, suddenly...


14 posted on 07/10/2024 5:26:43 PM PDT by drwoof
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