TIGARD, Ore. — A young alligator found in Salmon Creek near Vancouver, Wash., last month has a new home in Oregon.
Tim Criswell, owner of the House of Reptiles shop in Tigard has volunteered to take care of the gator for a few years. The 30-inch-long, black and yellow alligator is now sharing a 6-foot-wide tub with another young alligator at Criswell’s store, the Columbian newspaper reported.
Animal control officers, who captured the alligator last week, believe it was cast off by people who illegally had it as a pet. The reptile is less than a year old, and officials think it probably would have died during the winter.
Criswell said that in about three years, he plans to ship the animal to an outdoor gator farm in Florida where it can live out its days. He said alligators have been known to live 70 years.
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