interviewed by NBCBoston<\/a> about the alligator Wednesday night, Kenney, the owner of Joe\u2019s Crazzy Critters, said he decided to go searching for it, arriving on the Esplanade around 8:30 p.m. <\/p>\n\u201cI felt bad,\u201d he said. \u201cThe thing was going to freeze out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kenney said he saw the gator within 15 minutes after shining his flashlight \u201cdown on some of the lily pads.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was dug down into the mud, you could kind of seeing the yellow coloration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Kenney said the alligator appeared to be about 1 year old and that he has been in touch with officials about how to proceed. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of luck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The sight of an alligator in one of the lagoons adjoining the Charles flummoxed at least two people in recent days.<\/p>\n
Trevor Rochelle, 26, was walking along the Esplanade on Sunday when he saw the small alligator, which is illegal to own in the state. <\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of nudged it to see if it was real and alive and would move,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The alligator was indeed alive and hissed when Rochelle tapped its nose with a stick. It then \u201cmoonwalked\u201d backwards into one of two lagoons that connect to the Charles River and disappeared from view, he said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday morning, Whitney Lieberman, 28, of East Boston, saw the alligator while she was running to work, again in one of the lagoons.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was hard not to notice,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was kind of swimming around a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI came to the realization that this is probably someone\u2019s pet,\u201d she added. \u201cLike this is not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Truman Dickerson can be reached at truman.dickerson@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAlligators cannot survive in cold temperatures,\u201d a spokesperson for the state\u2019s division of fisheries and wildlife said. \u201cMassWildlife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-282425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}