Albert the alligator could be headed home to NY after owner ‘fought tooth and nail’ to get reptile BFF back from state

He may be seeing you later, alligator.

A 750-pound alligator seized by government agents from a Buffalo-area home could be headed back upstate after a judge determined the Department of Environmental Conservation wrongly denied its owners’ application for a dangerous animals permit.

Albert — a 34-year-old gator who spent his life in a lavish pen at owner Tony Cavallaro’s Hamburg house until the government came knocking nearly a year ago — might be back home as early as April after a New York Judge ruled the DEC must issue a new ruling on Cavallaro’s application by mid-March, or return the beast to Cavallaro within 10 days.

“I fought tooth and nail for this,” a delighted but still determined Cavallaro told The Post. “They never expected somebody to come back and fight them like I did. They thought they were going to come in and walk all over me like some pansy.”…

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