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Posted on 09/26/2025 7:46:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Jinseioshi, a 5-foot-long, 32-pound pet alligator living in Washington County, gets to go to a lot of different places.
According to her owner, Wesley Silva, 60, she’s been to Denny’s and a Bob Evans restaurant. And until recently, she made regular appearances at a West Brownville Walmart.
Sadly, Jinseioshi won’t be allowed in Walmart any longer, as she’s been banned from the store.
The ban came after some customers spotted the alligator in the store being pushed around in a shopping cart while she was wearing a dress.
“We have been going to that Walmart for about 3½ years, and normally the reaction is ‘That’s pretty cool’ or ‘That is awesome that you have a pet alligator, man!’” Silva said to NBC News.
However, some customers apparently weren’t so thrilled to be seeing a pet alligator in their store and directed their concerns to Walmart management, which then let it be known that Silva couldn’t bring Jinseioshi into the store any longer.
“The safety of our customers and associates is our highest priority,” a Walmart spokesperson told NBC News. “We welcome service animals in our stores, but it is unacceptable to expose members of the public to potential danger.”
Silva said he got the alligator from a neighbor who couldn’t take care of her any longer.
A pastor at a Baptist church, Silva also owns a dog, six snakes, a leopard gecko, a Komodo dragon, an ocellated skink and — yes — another alligator.
“In the Bible, God talks about us having dominion over animals, and I developed an affinity for the reptiles,” he said to the news outlet. “I find them very soothing.”
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I like carrying around my Support Makers Mark. Cops 👮 don’t like it for some reason. 🤷♂️
People need to very seriously just grown up.
And not just the claim of the need of emotional support animals to go shopping for example, but to just stop with the infantile attention seeking boundary pushing.
And that includes blue, pink, purple or any other color hair on anyone outside the young teenage age range.
The xenomorph identifies as
a Tyrannosaurus Rex...😄🤣🤣
“I”m my cat’s emotional support animal. Cat “owners” know what I mea”
Ha!
Same thing applies to me except substitute dog for cat!
I agree. If you can’t function without bringing your stupid animal everywhere, stay home.
We booked a hotel a couple months in advance for our daughter’s wedding. (I travel a ton for my job and usually reserve the room from the parking lot so booking early was unusual)
They gave us a pet room because Housekeeping was running behind and the normal people’s room weren’t ready yet. The floor was covered with some sort of powder and the room stank of animals.
We lasted about 20 minutes and made them get a real room ready.
Emotional support BS has gone rampant. It’s just an excuse to get an animal somewhere. Most owners should be instutionalized.
I agree, and I have 3 dogs. If you are so emotionally fragile “nuts” that you require a dog or cat or alligator to be with you everywhere you go, how about stay the hell home and away from normal people.
The owner as a snack or the alligator as a snack?
I’m sorry, but if someone cannot go in public without an emotional support animal, they should consider being institutionalized.
This is more of an issue when it comes to air travel. It should be completely banned. It’s become a fraud to not pay for the family pet.
EC
I was watching a MLB game where the local team had bark and the park night.
I guy was carrying the biggest wabbit I have seen in my life which had such a submissive look that it might have been on Xanax.
Does alligator taste good?
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