{"id":194697,"date":"2025-10-01T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194697\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:37:09","slug":"searching-for-credible-alligator-spotted-on-belle-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194697\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for &#8216;credible&#8217; alligator spotted on Belle Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1A8A5D50AAEA80CC017B8C4C6633EC03.jpg\" alt=\"Alligator spotted lurking on Belle Isle\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/video\/1716720\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alligator spotted lurking on Belle Isle<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">Footage that really set the hunt off was recorded by Lynn Blasey, who was just spending a Sunday afternoon paddle boarding at Belle Isle when she saw this alligator.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">DETROIT (FOX 2) &#8211; It&#8217;s an unusual sight to be sure, but there is an effort to find and trap an alligator that has made a home on Belle Isle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The gator itself was recorded by a woman who spotted it while paddle boarding. Now, many others are on the hunt for the gator.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Footage that really set the hunt off was recorded by Lynn Blasey, who was just spending a Sunday afternoon paddle boarding at Belle Isle when she saw this alligator.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The video was checked out by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, along with geo-positioning confirming an alligator has taken up position on the far east side of Belle Isle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">As we did some deep diving into this story trying to find the gator ourselves, we encountered a number of people also on the hunt. There were reports of an additional sighting today, but nothing to confirm that at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Still, with the warm summer-like weather, an alligator hunt was a perfect excuse to spend some time in the great outdoors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;On Belle Isle, there are ample amounts of food,&#8221; said Lou&#8217;s Pet Shop owner Donny Cook. &#8220;Turtles, fish, and snakes. Ducks and geese, so yeah, they can grow really quick. And you were saying if there is food, they likely won\u2019t go anywhere. Yeah, if they have a spot that is under a bridge, they will stay there for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Cook was aware of the Belle Isle gator and says his store actually specializes in exotic pet rescues.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Michigan DNR is asking people to give them a call if they encounter the alligator in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/wayne-county\/detroit\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alligator spotted lurking on Belle Isle Footage that really set the hunt off was recorded by Lynn Blasey,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2120,13592,3,74050,79,25,27208,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-194697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-mi","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pets-animals","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wayne-county","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}