Buffalo, N.Y.
When a pet outgrows its cage, you build or buy a new one. When a pet outgrows its basement home, you send it to Florida.An 8-foot-long, 170-pound alligator was removed Sunday from the house of a reptile enthusiast in Buffalo, New York, who called the Department of Environmental Conservation when he realized he could not longer care for it.
Reptile experts John and Laura Paner made the 40-hour round-trip drive from Tampa, Florida to their old hometown to pick up “Jojo” in a van that will reach the Croc Encounters Reptile Sanctuary by Tuesday night.
The owner had raised the animal from birth, recreating its environment in what the Paners estimated to be a 10 feet by 12 feet area including a small pond. Laura Paner noted that the land area appeared to be steam-cleaned while the water area had a filter.
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