{"id":131321,"date":"2025-11-13T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/131321\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:58:08","slug":"small-alligator-seen-near-charles-river-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/131321\/","title":{"rendered":"Small alligator seen near Charles River rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/joescrazzycritters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/joescrazzycritters.com\">its website<\/a>, Joe\u2019s Crazzy Critters is a \u201cMassachusetts-based company that specializes in entertaining and educational exotic animal shows for audiences of all ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The company couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">On Sunday, Trevor Rochelle, 26, was walking along the Esplanade when he saw the small alligator, which is not native to Massachusetts and is illegal to own in the state, according to the state\u2019s Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cI kind of nudged it to see if it was real and alive and would move,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">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<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">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<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cHe was hard not to notice,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was kind of swimming around a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cI came to the realization that this is probably someone\u2019s pet,\u201d she added. \u201cLike this is not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">In a statement, a spokesperson for the division of fisheries and wildlife said the officials are \u201caware of a video showing an alligator that was reportedly taken along the Charles River Bike Path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cAlligators cannot survive in cold temperatures,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cMassWildlife is coordinating with Boston Animal Control and Massachusetts Environmental Police to locate and capture the animal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Rochelle said Wednesday he hopes that officials will find the alligator before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">\u201cIt does not belong in Boston,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re glad that it\u2019s alive, but now I just want to try to follow up, close the loop, and get it to the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagline | font_primary inline_block  margin_top_32\">Truman Dickerson can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/11\/13\/metro\/charles-river-alligator-rescued\/mailto:truman.dickerson@globe.com\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">truman.dickerson@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to its website, Joe\u2019s Crazzy Critters is a \u201cMassachusetts-based company that specializes in entertaining and educational exotic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-131321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}