New Pet

The next time your child wants permission to get a new pet, be sure to ask exactly what they intend to bring home.

In a recent AP press report (Alligator Seized From Vermont Basement), agents for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife had to seize a 17 year old 6-foot-4 pet alligator. It’s one thing to have a pet, but when it becomes large enough to eat you, someone has to draw the line.

Officials forced the owner give up its 125-pound pet gator because, as an expert noted, gigantic reptiles aren't the kind of things people need to keep in their basement. "They just don't warm up to people. They don't ever become friendly. They don't make good pets," Michael Ralbovsky of Rainforest Reptiles of Boston said after helping officials remove the cold-blooded beast.