“She buried him Saturday and said he had a big alligator in his bedroom,” Mark Rosenthal, the owner of an exotic animal rescue, said
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- A Detroit woman contacted an exotic animal education facility after finding an alligator in her late son’s bedroom
- It took an exotic animal expert 30 minutes to wrangle the 6-foot reptile out of the house
- The reptile was found inside a glass aquarium, almost the same size as the animal with no heat or water
A grieving mother needed backup to remove a large alligator from her late son’s bedroom following his death.
Mark Rosenthal of Animal Magic, a licensed, nonprofit, no-kill exotic animal rescue/educational facility in Detroit, spoke with WKRC and WDIV about a remarkable call he received this week to remove an alligator found lurking in a home’s bedroom. According to WKRC, the mother was stunned to find a 6-foot reptile in her deceased son’s room.
“An elderly woman called in this morning,” Rosenthal told WDIV on Tuesday, Nov. 18, of the conversation. “Her son passed away last week. She buried him on Saturday and said he had a big alligator in his bedroom.”…