See you soon, crocodile.
A Pennsylvania man opened his front door to find a large gator sprawled across the threshold earlier this week — prompting at least nine other chompers to be rescued from nearby homes.
“It must be crazy. It would be a rude awakening if I went out and saw it,” Tony Gularsky, of Kiski Township, told WTAE when he learned of the alligator seen on his front porch Thursday.
The reptile — which Gurlasky estimated was about “5 to 6 feet long” — was first spotted by a neighbor.
Gurlasky had just been released from the hospital on Thursday, so the neighbor called the 60-year-old’s friends to warn him.
“[They] called me and said, ‘Whatever you do, Tony, don’t go out on your porch — there’s a big gator,’” he told the Tribune-Review of the shocking phone call.
One of the rescued gators had its jaw taped shut, footage shows.WTAE
“It was spread out in front of his door. He couldn’t get out [of his house] if he wants,” one of Gurlasky’s friends, Jason Pisarcik, 45, told the outlet.
Gurlasky, however, was surprisingly calm about the gator — which authorities eventually removed — and told Tribune Live he wasn’t surprised by the visitor because his other neighbor, Dominic Hayward, is known to keep about 10 of them. creature in his house by the side of the road.
“It’s just a matter of time before they do [got] loose,” Gularsky shrugged.
Nine alligators were taken from a home after one got loose in the neighborhood.WTAE
“I ended up being the unlucky one – it had to be on my porch.”
Hayward, 26, was arrested by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission last month for improperly selling and transporting certain animals, the Tribune-Review reported.
He posted some of his scaly pets for sale on Craigslist recently, and referred to them as “cool,” the outlet said.
As of Friday, he remained in custody at the Armstrong County Jail on a parole violation, the Tribune-Review said.
The gator enclosure had broken open, and they were climbing all over the residence. Kiski Municipal Police
As a result of the alligator sighting on Gurlasky’s porch, authorities launched a massive roundup of the nine remaining gators living on Hayward’s property, Armstrong County Humane Officer Amber Phillips told Tribune Live on Friday morning.
The dirty backyard pool enclosure had broken, causing the reptile to run amok in the Hayward residence.
“It was tiring and a slow process, but it was done and no one was hurt,” Phillips said of the rescue.
“They are [alligators] may not be ideal pets, but they are important creatures and deserve the best if nature doesn’t work for them. I am relieved they are in a better environment and will have the life they fully deserve when they are taken to a shelter.”
The gator was left alone in a filthy cage when his owner was arrested. Nate’s Reptile Rescue
The gators were all piled into the back of a truck to be transported to Nate’s Reptile Rescue, where they are being cleaned and prepared for transfer to a shelter in the South, photos obtained by the Tribune-Review show.
One of them had also covered his mouth.
Hayward’s largest pet alligator, Thor, is still inside the home, and is not a threat to the public, Kiski Township Police Chief Lee Bartolicius stressed.
The raid on Hayward’s property is the latest in a string of hair-raising gator incidents in the Kiski area, according to the Tribune-Review.
The first – nicknamed Chomper – was rescued from the Kiski River in August and will serve as an animal ambassador, the outlet explained.
But the second gator — a baby boy named Neo — is still at large after its owner, Austin Randall, 23, failed to give it to Hayward, Bartolicius said.
The state of Pennsylvania does not regulate reptiles, explains local news.WTAE
In Pennsylvania, it is legal to own non-native amphibians and reptiles as long as they are not released, according to the Tribune-Review.
There are also no state permit requirements to keep gators and similar creatures, and the state does not regulate the reptiles, the outlet said.
After Chomper and Neo’s apparent escape, Kiski Township officials moved to restrict gator ownership in the area — but were quickly met with sharp criticism.
“We don’t need more rules and regulations here. We moved to this country to live in this country,” a Kiski Township resident told the Tribune-Review after a controversial township supervisor meeting last month.
The backlash to the proposed rule — which one official acknowledged was submitted “preliminarily” — was so intense that Supervisor Dylan Foster tore a copy of the draft in half at the end of the discussion.
Meanwhile, neighbors are relieved that Hayward’s guards have mostly been cleaned up and sent to more suitable homes.
“It will be safer around here. You don’t know when they will miss,” said Pisarcik.
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