Posted on 11/24/2025 6:48:49 AM PST by Red Badger
An animal rescuer reported that he got a call regarding a six-foot alligator discovered inside a woman’s house in Detroit.
Animal Magic’s Mark Rosenthal stated that the woman found the gator in her late son’s room just days after his funeral. According to Rosenthal, the rescue operation took around 30 minutes.
“I used the sweatshirt again, put it over its head, and just grabbed it by the tail and lifted it by the tail until it was balanced at the top. Then I got off the milk crate, got him down, and then put him in the container you’ll see here in a minute,” said Rosenthal, per CBS News.
Rosenthal described the alligator as scared and aggressive, having been confined in a glass aquarium only slightly larger than its body. He noted that the animal had no heat source, no drinking or swimming water, and nothing to eat.
The rescue crew took him in later in the day from the home on Grand River and 7 Mile.
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Michigan has no statewide ban on owning alligators as pets, but numerous cities — including Detroit — prohibit them under local ordinances. Rosenthal noted that people who attempt to circumvent these regulations will ultimately learn they cannot outmaneuver nature’s laws.
“I don’t care what you have if you can give it a full life. You’re never going to give an alligator a full life because they get huge, and where are you going to keep it?” said Rosenthal, per CBS News.
Rosenthal stated that the animal, nicknamed “Navi the Gator,” will be relocated to a Florida sanctuary, where it will live in a multi-million-dollar enclosure.
Gator in Detroit Ping!................
Would’ve liked to have read about how her son died a week prior? I certainly don’t like alligators, but the poor thing really had miserable living conditions.
Another case in recent days of Volunteers easily dispatching a Gator.
Another case in recent days of Volunteers easily dispatching a Gator.
Ouch! But totally deserved.
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My youngest son had a rhinoceros under his bed for seventeen years. The wife and I never found it until he joined the Navy when he turned seventeen and he asked us to feed it.
Spontaneous generation.
A little off topic but I assume the son lived in the mother’s house.
If so, she had no idea he had an alligator in his room?
That is a perfect example of parents not in touch with what they’re kids are doing.
I can assure you if I had an alligator in my room my parents would have become aware of it within the first 24 hours and would have taken appropriate action to rectify the situation!
What did he do with all the rhino poop?
Sounds like Mom needed to talk to her son a little bit more.
I don’t think gators are normally found that far north................🤔
At first, I thought the story was that the Gator ate the boy, or most of him.
How thoughtless or dumb to have a full sized gator in a northern state and confined to a tiny area. The deceased must not have been someone who thinks of the big picture.
It seems there would have been a certain amount of Gator Poo in that closed door bedroom. Nobody smelled anything? Usually, women have a sharper nose than most men.
LOL! That’s great!
Several alarming points actually.
One. As others pointed out. WHY THE BLOODY HADES is this a surprise to the mother? (If the son was murdered, or died of drugs and alcohol abuse in a different apartment- as is likely in Detroit actually, I do sympathize with her.) Drug murder is probable, since the urban gang cultural prizes exotic, deadly, aggressive pets like pit bulls. Fellow gang members, and wanna-be’s.)
Second. How many millions were spent by Florida taxpayers building and maintaining a “Florida home for homeless abandoned alligators”? How many tens of millions are spent per by the Florida government on orphaned alligators?
Third. Who is paying to ship this homeless alligator down to Florida?
If “in her house
Fortunately they gave it up to Uncle Joe who ran an alligator farm exhibit before retiring to the Shady Rest Hotel.
I remember small alligators for sale in the 5&Dime stores back in the early 1960’s. You could also buy chicks and rabbits dyed in various colors.
Of course I also remember the trash cans full of surplus WWII rifles for sale near the checkout counters. They were $3, $5, or $7 depending upon the condition. We got several of them, 303 British, 7.62 Russian, 7X57 Mauser, ...... They were all just stuffed in trash cans prior to 1964.
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