I'm probably going to make myself sound like an idiot here, but aren't people required to have a permit to keep those? And even then, isn't one of the requirements of having the permit that once they get too big that they must go to a gator rescue or something like that? I don't know too much about it, but the way it sounds in this thread is that people can just go out and buy a baby gator and raise it up for fun. Maybe I got the wrong impression.

Either way, I can't see why anyone would *want* a pet alligator...

Nothing against Wally or any other happy healthy gators and their keepers, btw.