Emotional support rescue alligator no longer welcome at Walmart 🐊

Chompface thread.

Dumb ass.

Anyone who thinks it is acceptable to take a pet alligator into a shop or a restaurant has few screws loose upstairs.

Is Willie going to pay for the medical expenses if the pet alligator goes back to its instincts and is looking for food, or feels endangered by the people around it?

I aghast the eateries he names have let him on their premises with an alligator. Really? No adult with a brain, and a phone to corporate, present?

Desperate and dangerous attention seeking.

FLORIDA!

Fellow emotional-support alligator "Wally" ended up being stolen and released into a swamp, but at least he had an Access All Areas pass while on ES duty:

She's registered as an emotional support animal? Exactly which state or local agency takes applications?

The article's last line: "And finally, she gave me an ultimatum, 'Dad, really, you need to get your own snake.'

Alligators carry salmonella. Eew.

I am shocked that this wasn't in Florida.

Pennsylvania is part Florida. We send as many of our rejects down there as we can.

He should bring it to a GOP rally.

He should bring it to a GOP rally. That would be animal abuse.

Count your blessings, bitches!

R6 = Madonna.

One must remember half of the state of Pennsylvania is basically West Virginia.

I cry bullocky on this.

Alligators aren’t just dangerous because of their bite force and unpredictability; they’re also disease carriers:

Salmonella: Like most reptiles, gators commonly carry salmonella bacteria in their intestines. Handling them or touching surfaces they contact can spread it.

Mycobacteria: Reptiles can harbor non-tuberculous mycobacteria, which can infect humans through cuts or scrapes.

Parasites: Wild or even captive gators may carry external and internal parasites (ticks, nematodes, protozoa).

Zoonotic risk: Reptile droppings and water from their enclosures can transmit disease if hygiene isn’t meticulous.

I would have to be some real in-bred backwater barbecue shack who would welcome an alligator. Even then, no.

This “emotional support animal” shit is getting out of hand. Like other posters, I’m shocked he’s gotten away with toting this creature around in crowded stores like it’s an accessory. They’re dangerous and spread diseases.

And yes, that this guy isn’t in Florida is astonishing.

Surely RFKjr has a staff position for Wesley Silva.

Oy!

I remember that Marie Osmond flew on airplanes with an emotional support tarantula in a little wicker cage. I never found out for sure whether that was true or just a really brilliant rumor.

btw, the federal government only certifies dogs as emotional support animals, and they must go through training to become one. Someone telling you their alligator or tarantula or llama or rat is an emotional support animal is just thinking wishfully, not legally.

That gator gonna kill you.

That does it! I'm getting an emotional support piranha.

He likes it when you stick a finger in his bowl.

Damn foolishness.

Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Goes to Wal-Mart

It looks like Wally at r8 doesn't have any bottom teeth. Or do I need new readers? Whoever kidnapped him and released him in the swamp did him no favors.