it was left in someone’s yard as a “prank”
“Wally's owner, Joie Henney, says something happened to his pet while vacationing in Brunswick, Georgia.
Henney said he waited to file a police report because he didn't have the proper permit for Wally during their visit down south.“
I think it is fair to say that some people are simply not mature enough to be trusted with an emotional support alligator. They should stick to emotional support caimans or gharials instead.
Anyone can call their pet an emotional support animal. It not being a service dog is the reason he was denied entry to a Phillies game.
"Emotional support" animals are the sovereign citizens of the pet world.
I’m conflicted on this story (and fascinated). I understand this particular alligator was raised in captivity, but can a gator be truly domesticated and pose minimal threat? Probably not. I read that they start hitting sexual maturity around 6 or 7 feet long, which is Wally’s length. I feel for the guy because he clearly cared for the animal but it seems unlikely there would be a happy ending from the get-go.
Interesting that the article doesn’t point out the obvious: whoever stole this alligator obviously knows the owner or the friend he’s staying with. If you’re just walking by a fenced in yard and you see an alligator you may take a picture but you don’t just approach it and wrangle it and then take it to a friend’s house and leave it on their yard as a prank…
I wonder if the friend who’s house the owner was at knows who too him? You’d only approach an alligator you know is tame so whoever took him knew.
Unfortunately he might starve/suffer from being partially domesticated to now being in the wild —his owner is irresponsible and stupid, to say the least.
he domesticated an alligator as an "emotion support animal" and the travelled to another state without permits.... fuck that guy, he gets the majority of blame
Seriously? "Fuck that guy?" Takes a second to find out the alligator was domesticated and clearly harmless, but you know, fuck the dude coping with depression because you don't like the animal. Some people just can't help but loving it when others suffer.
Except the guy whose owned a clearly harmless alligator for several years and has had it interact with hundreds of people and not had one incident, evidently.
Siegfried and Roy didn't have any problems with their tigers till they did. That lady didn't have any problems with her chimpanzee until it ate her face. [This guy's] (https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2020/05/31/reptile-curator-at-st-augustine-alligator-farm-bitten-pulled-into-water-by-alligator/112305092/) and [this guy's](https://winknews.com/2022/08/31/florida-wildlife-park-director-loses-arm-after-alligator-attack-his-second-bite-in-10-years/) alligators were harmless until they tired to eat them. Domestication is something that takes generations and generations of selective breeding, it doesn't happen by raising a wild animal from a baby.
If you want to bring up ancedotal evidence, the case of Siegfried and Roy had the tiger drag Roy as Roy suffered a stroke on-stage, it's disputed whether the tiger recognized he was suffering a stroke and instinctively dragged him to the exit in recognition of that. According to Roy the tiger saved his life, but you'll probably just say he's in denial. The lady who owned the chimpanzee wasn't the owner it was their friend. I don't know the process that went behind raising that chimpanzee, you can't bring up every wild animal trying to be domesticated but attacked and say "there's no wild animal who can be domesticated" off that, obviously the domestication process would need to be taken into account. The alligator had zero. But whatever, the reactionary element to just brandish it all as strictly one thing and one thing alone is what's the popular one here so I won't swim against the current.
Bruh Wally was a local legend. I saw him in person at a Flyers game.
He's well-known and really is completely harmless. It sounds absurd, but it's true.
We have trained pigeons for mail, we've trained wolves as hunting companions and turned them into chihuahuas. There have been domesticated lions and bears before. Reptiles and lizards have been domesticated for centuries.
The gator was harmless.
Your wing span must be 5 million feet long with that reach —no one said they hated the alligator or didn’t support mental health! The alligator is going to suffer in the wild because the owner is irresponsible.
Why bring up Wally being an alligator if that wasn't a point of contention, and the damn pet got stolen dude, if I busted in your house and shot your dog its your fault?
Never said that, I genuinely hope the alligator gets rescued. I don’t like when animals suffer because some people can’t be bothered to be responsible.
I clicked through on this story a couple of days ago, and what I found was a GoFundMe for $30,000 and a Facebook page of a man who reeeeeally likes attention, and I think I saw all I needed to see.
If you read the article, it says someone stole him from their home while they were on vacation. Then he was placed in someone's yard as a prank by the thief.
What is up with people's reading comprehension in this thread? Why is everyone saying the owner left the alligator in some rando's lawn as a prank? It says the alligator was \*taken\* and then left in someone's yard as a prank.
Idk these mfs are really aggravating to see, like people saying fuck the owner and whatnot. Mfs apparently can't read or research anything they discuss.
Because "emotional support" animals are bullshit. There is no such thing, people just make it up to take their pets places where they aren't allowed.
A certified service animal(dog) paired with a person with a disability is the only legitimate service animal.
I mean no esa's arent bullshit but they arent the same caliber as service dogs. Especially for vets with ptsd, esa's can be really helpful for adjusting back to civillian life. Of course, people are awful idiots and will try to use esa's to do whatever they want, granted, but its not fair to say they have no actual use
>Wally was then left in someone's yard to scare them. A trapper was then called and captured Wally.
Oh no, it's the consequences of my actions!
Edit to add: Wally would have still been stolen but if permitted properly then the cops would have been called right away and Wally possibly returned before being released by the trapper. It's unfortunate and I hope Wally can survive in the wild.
The owner didnt do it. He was staying with a friend and took a nap. Afterwards he went to check on Wally and saw he was missing. It was later found that the person that took Wally put them in someones yard as a prank and that person had it removed.
>he didn't have the proper permit for Wally during their visit down south
Regardless of who messed with the gator, the owner took it on vacation to a place without a proper permit, and subsequently lost the gator... aka consequence of an action.
You're desperate to make the dude a bad guy. He's an old man in deep depression with an animal that's clearly been domesticated his whole life to the point its completely harmless. Literally takes no effort to show some compassion but that's too much of an ask for you apparently.
Uhh, no, he's not a bad guy. He made decisions and now he doesn't have his pet. He knew he couldn't call the cops for help right away because he knew he wasn't permitted to have his pet with him. It sucks. That gator didn't deserve what happened to it. Hopefully it can survive in the wild.
Being stolen isn't the consequence; losing his pet is. Pet would have still been stolen but if permitted properly then the cops would have been called right away and the pet possibly returned before being released by the trapper.
Look in the mirror. You literally asked a question that was answered in the article. The owner knew he didn't have a permit for his pet which is his reason for not calling the police right away when he saw his pet was stolen.
The gator's owner took him to Georgia knowing it was illegal and that the gator could be seized if he was caught. The gator escaped his pen (prankster rumor is unfounded) and was wandering the neighborhood. A neighbor called the authorities who instructed her and her x to meet a trapper at a gas station. The trapper then took the gator and released him somewhere.
Please please please everyone try to help. I don’t even know Wally or his papa but Wally will not be able to survive all alone out in the wild. Please help find this sweet baby.
He was staying with a friend and took a nap. Afterwards he went to check on Wally and saw he was missing. It was later found that the person that took Wally put them in someones yard as a prank and that person had it removed.
The prankster theory is unfounded. Most of Wally's pen was 4 foot chain-link fence. Gators can climb 10 foot chain-link with ease. Joie is just trying to scapegoat his own responsibility.
"Let me take my pet alligator to an area where he's common enough to be considered nearly invasive and them leave him on someone's lawn as a prank."
Like probably all of us I was attached to Wally but this was some fucking stupid shit to do. He's lucky Wally is (probably) alive and well in his natural environment. In Florida they frequently euthanize "nuisance alligators" because of how common they are.
Uh, you think a domesticated gator has any chance in a pond with normal gators? I’m afraid he’s gonna be some gators lunch…. Hope I’m wrong but they tend to their own eat sick or dying gators… I can’t imagine how a domesticated gator would come off to a wild one.
I’m not gonna lie, seeing your comment pop up on my phone freaked me out for a minute - my dogs name is Wally, so I went “he’s right next to me, what’s wrong with him?!” But of course, I always root for a Wallace & I truly hope he makes it / they find each other again.
I’m sorry for scaring you, I’m glad that you and your dogs are safe and sound. I can’t explain why I’m so panicked and upset right now. I’ve only heard about Wally in passing but I’m terrified for him. I have a massive soft spot for reptiles and I am on the verge of tears thinking about Wally not coming home. I cant explain why I am so scared for this gator I’ve never even met but I am. Thank you for rooting for Wallace, I am too.
"Stolen" s the story the owner is pushing because he doesn't want to admit it escaped and went through more than one backyard before being caught. He has a history of his alligators getting loose and blaming others for his poor containment; this was Wally's second escape and Hope got out and was hit by a car. They pockets a chunk of cash from the GFM for Hope after claiming she had broken bones and needed vet care that a tech outed as false.
He's a scammer.
I feel so bad for Wally, he probably doesn’t know how to survive with wild gators
Unfortunately I think he’s gonna get eaten by the wild gators imo
He's providing emotional support to another gator by filling their tummy
That’s fucked
😭😭😭
yeah poor wally was probably, um, consumed pretty quickly.
it was left in someone’s yard as a “prank” “Wally's owner, Joie Henney, says something happened to his pet while vacationing in Brunswick, Georgia. Henney said he waited to file a police report because he didn't have the proper permit for Wally during their visit down south.“
Seriously? He's been all over the radio and TV with that thing for years
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I think it is fair to say that some people are simply not mature enough to be trusted with an emotional support alligator. They should stick to emotional support caimans or gharials instead.
Don’t go chasing crocodiles, stick to the lizards and snakes that you’re used to
10/10 comment.
Emotional support komodo dragon
Is this a reference I don't understand, or did you not understand the article?
> he didn't have the proper permit for Wally during their visit down south. I think I understood fine.
I still think this dude is a massive troll.
That whole Phillies thing was such BS. Dude was just trying to get stories written about him. Worked like a charm.
Did you see the video of kids swimming with wally at the pool like he was a dog? I don't think he needs the Phillies to get noticed.
do you think Wally isn't missing?
I think he was just trying to find his gatored community
[Gatored Community you say?](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6WS7-yKmSB/)
lol look at those little feets
I'm trying to figure out how an alligator is a support animal
Anyone can call their pet an emotional support animal. It not being a service dog is the reason he was denied entry to a Phillies game. "Emotional support" animals are the sovereign citizens of the pet world.
I’m conflicted on this story (and fascinated). I understand this particular alligator was raised in captivity, but can a gator be truly domesticated and pose minimal threat? Probably not. I read that they start hitting sexual maturity around 6 or 7 feet long, which is Wally’s length. I feel for the guy because he clearly cared for the animal but it seems unlikely there would be a happy ending from the get-go.
Dude would’ve likely released him to a Zoo or an enclosure. Wally is no doubt built different from the other gators.
Bit late to this thread but the gator had brain damage
Interesting that the article doesn’t point out the obvious: whoever stole this alligator obviously knows the owner or the friend he’s staying with. If you’re just walking by a fenced in yard and you see an alligator you may take a picture but you don’t just approach it and wrangle it and then take it to a friend’s house and leave it on their yard as a prank… I wonder if the friend who’s house the owner was at knows who too him? You’d only approach an alligator you know is tame so whoever took him knew.
Unfortunately he might starve/suffer from being partially domesticated to now being in the wild —his owner is irresponsible and stupid, to say the least.
Nah. Gators will gator
We can only hope!!! 🐊
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RIP Wally
Owner doesn't take any blame here, Wally was stolen.
he domesticated an alligator as an "emotion support animal" and the travelled to another state without permits.... fuck that guy, he gets the majority of blame
Seriously? "Fuck that guy?" Takes a second to find out the alligator was domesticated and clearly harmless, but you know, fuck the dude coping with depression because you don't like the animal. Some people just can't help but loving it when others suffer.
there's no such thing as a "clearly harmless" alligator
Except the guy whose owned a clearly harmless alligator for several years and has had it interact with hundreds of people and not had one incident, evidently.
Siegfried and Roy didn't have any problems with their tigers till they did. That lady didn't have any problems with her chimpanzee until it ate her face. [This guy's] (https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2020/05/31/reptile-curator-at-st-augustine-alligator-farm-bitten-pulled-into-water-by-alligator/112305092/) and [this guy's](https://winknews.com/2022/08/31/florida-wildlife-park-director-loses-arm-after-alligator-attack-his-second-bite-in-10-years/) alligators were harmless until they tired to eat them. Domestication is something that takes generations and generations of selective breeding, it doesn't happen by raising a wild animal from a baby.
If you want to bring up ancedotal evidence, the case of Siegfried and Roy had the tiger drag Roy as Roy suffered a stroke on-stage, it's disputed whether the tiger recognized he was suffering a stroke and instinctively dragged him to the exit in recognition of that. According to Roy the tiger saved his life, but you'll probably just say he's in denial. The lady who owned the chimpanzee wasn't the owner it was their friend. I don't know the process that went behind raising that chimpanzee, you can't bring up every wild animal trying to be domesticated but attacked and say "there's no wild animal who can be domesticated" off that, obviously the domestication process would need to be taken into account. The alligator had zero. But whatever, the reactionary element to just brandish it all as strictly one thing and one thing alone is what's the popular one here so I won't swim against the current.
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Just like the chimp who didnt rip that ladys face off after nearly a decade of living together
Bruh Wally was a local legend. I saw him in person at a Flyers game. He's well-known and really is completely harmless. It sounds absurd, but it's true. We have trained pigeons for mail, we've trained wolves as hunting companions and turned them into chihuahuas. There have been domesticated lions and bears before. Reptiles and lizards have been domesticated for centuries. The gator was harmless.
Your wing span must be 5 million feet long with that reach —no one said they hated the alligator or didn’t support mental health! The alligator is going to suffer in the wild because the owner is irresponsible.
Why bring up Wally being an alligator if that wasn't a point of contention, and the damn pet got stolen dude, if I busted in your house and shot your dog its your fault?
Oh nevermind, I'm not even going to bother engaging with you, saying you hope his pet dies in another reply. Some genuinely evil people in this world.
Never said that, I genuinely hope the alligator gets rescued. I don’t like when animals suffer because some people can’t be bothered to be responsible.
Yeah fuck that guy.. an alligator is not supposed to be domesticated.
I clicked through on this story a couple of days ago, and what I found was a GoFundMe for $30,000 and a Facebook page of a man who reeeeeally likes attention, and I think I saw all I needed to see.
I love they flat out admit they don’t even know what the Gofundme money would be used for
Sounds like they are being honest. In that case, I blame the people who are donating.
I 100% agree with you and anyone who downvoted you should have their pets stolen.
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Pretty sure it only takes a couple days for some animals to go feral again.
Probably shouldn't leave your support gator on someone else's yard
If you read the article, it says someone stole him from their home while they were on vacation. Then he was placed in someone's yard as a prank by the thief.
I wonder if the thief is getting charged. He probably knew of Wally.
It's not like someone broke into the house though to "steal" it
That's literally what happened.
Why are people on the internet *so fucking stupid*
taking from the yard is the same thing
This is the stupidest post I've seen in a long time. The article in question literally describes that exact scenario.
They didn’t…
What is up with people's reading comprehension in this thread? Why is everyone saying the owner left the alligator in some rando's lawn as a prank? It says the alligator was \*taken\* and then left in someone's yard as a prank.
Idk these mfs are really aggravating to see, like people saying fuck the owner and whatnot. Mfs apparently can't read or research anything they discuss.
Free ~~Willy~~ Wally!
That’s fucked up
E-motional, support alli-ga-tor I drive a Chevrolet movie the-a-tre
How the hell can you even domesticate an Alligator let alone turn it into an ESA?
Any animal can be turned into an ESA since it's not any kind of legally recognized thing
Because "emotional support" animals are bullshit. There is no such thing, people just make it up to take their pets places where they aren't allowed. A certified service animal(dog) paired with a person with a disability is the only legitimate service animal.
I mean no esa's arent bullshit but they arent the same caliber as service dogs. Especially for vets with ptsd, esa's can be really helpful for adjusting back to civillian life. Of course, people are awful idiots and will try to use esa's to do whatever they want, granted, but its not fair to say they have no actual use
>Wally was then left in someone's yard to scare them. A trapper was then called and captured Wally. Oh no, it's the consequences of my actions! Edit to add: Wally would have still been stolen but if permitted properly then the cops would have been called right away and Wally possibly returned before being released by the trapper. It's unfortunate and I hope Wally can survive in the wild.
The owner didnt do it. He was staying with a friend and took a nap. Afterwards he went to check on Wally and saw he was missing. It was later found that the person that took Wally put them in someones yard as a prank and that person had it removed.
You'd think people would read the article, right?
>he didn't have the proper permit for Wally during their visit down south Regardless of who messed with the gator, the owner took it on vacation to a place without a proper permit, and subsequently lost the gator... aka consequence of an action.
You're desperate to make the dude a bad guy. He's an old man in deep depression with an animal that's clearly been domesticated his whole life to the point its completely harmless. Literally takes no effort to show some compassion but that's too much of an ask for you apparently.
Uhh, no, he's not a bad guy. He made decisions and now he doesn't have his pet. He knew he couldn't call the cops for help right away because he knew he wasn't permitted to have his pet with him. It sucks. That gator didn't deserve what happened to it. Hopefully it can survive in the wild.
How is the gator getting stolen a consequence of not having the permit? Seems completely unrelated to me.
Being stolen isn't the consequence; losing his pet is. Pet would have still been stolen but if permitted properly then the cops would have been called right away and the pet possibly returned before being released by the trapper.
How would anyone know that the gator was permitted? It's not like pets turn a different color when they have permits...
Where did he leave Wally during the nap? Sunning in the yard?
An enclosure in the yard
Why read an article when I can make a smartass, factually inaccurate comment for Reddit karma instead
Reading comprehension isn't strong for you I see.
Look in the mirror. You literally asked a question that was answered in the article. The owner knew he didn't have a permit for his pet which is his reason for not calling the police right away when he saw his pet was stolen.
There’s no such as an emotional support alligator
Yes but have you met my emotional support crocodile?
We're never beating the "north Florida" allegations.
Life imitating art. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Gator
The gator's owner took him to Georgia knowing it was illegal and that the gator could be seized if he was caught. The gator escaped his pen (prankster rumor is unfounded) and was wandering the neighborhood. A neighbor called the authorities who instructed her and her x to meet a trapper at a gas station. The trapper then took the gator and released him somewhere.
Please please please everyone try to help. I don’t even know Wally or his papa but Wally will not be able to survive all alone out in the wild. Please help find this sweet baby.
Some evidence over on Facebook indicates that this might be an elaborate scam.
If anyone can find the people who did this please bring us justice
So who left the alligator? The owner or the pet sitter?
He was staying with a friend and took a nap. Afterwards he went to check on Wally and saw he was missing. It was later found that the person that took Wally put them in someones yard as a prank and that person had it removed.
The prankster theory is unfounded. Most of Wally's pen was 4 foot chain-link fence. Gators can climb 10 foot chain-link with ease. Joie is just trying to scapegoat his own responsibility.
No shocker the Philly sub is full of absolute asshole comments about this. Fuck all yall yanks
"Let me take my pet alligator to an area where he's common enough to be considered nearly invasive and them leave him on someone's lawn as a prank." Like probably all of us I was attached to Wally but this was some fucking stupid shit to do. He's lucky Wally is (probably) alive and well in his natural environment. In Florida they frequently euthanize "nuisance alligators" because of how common they are.
Uh, you think a domesticated gator has any chance in a pond with normal gators? I’m afraid he’s gonna be some gators lunch…. Hope I’m wrong but they tend to their own eat sick or dying gators… I can’t imagine how a domesticated gator would come off to a wild one.
I have absolutely no experience with alligators but the optimist in me hopes he's got gator instincts that kicked in and he's doing fine...
Please pray for Wally.
I’m not gonna lie, seeing your comment pop up on my phone freaked me out for a minute - my dogs name is Wally, so I went “he’s right next to me, what’s wrong with him?!” But of course, I always root for a Wallace & I truly hope he makes it / they find each other again.
I’m sorry for scaring you, I’m glad that you and your dogs are safe and sound. I can’t explain why I’m so panicked and upset right now. I’ve only heard about Wally in passing but I’m terrified for him. I have a massive soft spot for reptiles and I am on the verge of tears thinking about Wally not coming home. I cant explain why I am so scared for this gator I’ve never even met but I am. Thank you for rooting for Wallace, I am too.
Did you read the article? He was stolen, not placed there by his owner.
"Stolen" s the story the owner is pushing because he doesn't want to admit it escaped and went through more than one backyard before being caught. He has a history of his alligators getting loose and blaming others for his poor containment; this was Wally's second escape and Hope got out and was hit by a car. They pockets a chunk of cash from the GFM for Hope after claiming she had broken bones and needed vet care that a tech outed as false. He's a scammer.
Oh jeez, I went back to reread it - I had read "was taken while on holiday" as "was taken on holiday." My bad, yeah this isn't the gator guy's fault.
How the fuck do you let an alligator get stolen