ive got an alligator...?

Question

i bought it when it was a baby...now its nearly 5ft long and a right evil mutha....it lives in my bathroom.....could i release it in the local park...it has quite a large lake with little islands in it ..and plenty of ducks and fish...can gators survive in england?

ive not really got one....

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Um. Do you really want to be the cause of England's first alligator attack?

My father is the nuisance alligator trapper for the state of Florida in our area, so lemme tell you somethings....

95% of alligator attacks in this state are linked to feeding, your alligator (if indeed you have one) has been your 'pet' and RESPONSIBILITY since you acquired it. It has depended on YOU for all of it's needs. If you let it go, it does NOT know how to differentiate between you and someone else and WILL approach people for food, and if those people do not have food, there is a VERY HIGH LIKELYHOOD of someone being bitten. Then there would be an investigation into HOW IN THE WORLD AN ALLIGATOR GOT LOOSE IN ENGLAND. YOU would be in deep poopie in other words. If a person didn't get attacked, it would likely be a dog, dogs are real easy... something strange in their territory and they go up and bark... gator might not be hungry right then and there, but he does have a memory, so he'll go back to where that thing was making noises at him.

Now for your final question, most likely not, but releasing it now, as spring is starting up (Not sure what the weather is where you're at right now, but still.) chances are, it will probably make it until at least late fall.

Now. My suggestion is that you take the RESPONSIBLE route out of this PREDICAMENT YOU HAVE GOTTEN YOURSELF INTO and contact a local zoo or.... something... you don't have gator farms over there, do you? and give it to someone / some entity that can RESPONSIBLY take care of it.

I've held off this long, but now I think it's past time that I've said it.....


~~~~~~DUMBASS!!!!!~~~~~~~


Edited to add.....

Joseph B: It depends a lot on how bad it freezes, a few years back, there were hard freezes in the Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia, photos were taken of two alligator noses poking up out of the ice. Most people figured the alligators were dead, but after it melted and warmed a bit, both alligators swam off presumably fine. Also, alligators are native as far north as North Carolina, and if they can find shelter and dig a cave in a tree's root system, or get somewhere else (Here in Fl, they like to use storm culverts as winter caves) where there's a semi-regular temperature, they can, indeed hibernate.

Answer 3

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She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 4

This is exactly why there should be regulations on the sales of exotic animals. Potential owners should be required to take a test on care of the animal, the animal should cost more than they do. Even though we have exotics, I still feel strongly about the regulations that should be in place. Please do NOT release any animal into the wild. Call a zoo, a herp vet or Fish and Game (or whatever it is called in England) to find out how to properly get rid of your alligator.

Answer 5

It's not recommended to release an animal into the wilderness, that isn't meant to be there. Contact local zoos to find out if any of them have the room to properly contain and care for this alligator.

Answer 6

..umm...well first of all why would u buy a gator when u didn't have future plans for it????But just to answer ur question i'd call a local zoo and ask if they had any room for a gator!..and a good local zoo..

Answer 7

You'd best check with your local game regulatory agency. England must have laws against releasing non indigenous predatory animals.

Answer 8

Alligators do not hibernate...the climate in England is too cold during winter and he won't survive, unlike turtles and frogs which can burrow into the lake bed and survive under the ice.

Answer 9

Please please PLEASE do not release your alligator into a public park!!! While the gator may be able to survive, it is dangerous to the public! "Wild" animals don't follow our rules, and your "pet" may harm a person, or a pet dog or cat or even a small child!

There are places that will take exotic pets that you can no longer care for. Look on the internet for such a place in your area. PLEASE!

Answer 10

if this is true and you do have an alligator in your bathroom and dont want it, try contacting a herpeticultural society in your area they are usually willing to take unwanted reptilians from their owners and finding a good home for that reptile.

Answer 11

Come winter it will die. You need to ask a store that sells reptiles where you can properly get rid of an alligator. England is not a place alligators are native to.