An internet-famous pet alligator went missing while his family was visiting friends in Georgia, and his owner believes it was stolen from his fenced yard in a twisted prank.
Joye Henney of Jonestown, Pennsylvania, tearfully pleads for help finding her pet alligator and an emotional support animal at a reptile farm. TikTok page.
“Between 4:30 a.m. and 7 a.m., someone came in and stole Wally,” Henney told the camera in a video shared Saturday.
“He’s missing. He was taken from his enclosure while we were visiting friends in Georgia. We need all the help we can get to bring the baby back,” he said, breaking down in tears. “i need your help.”
Henney, who calls himself “Wally Gator’s Dad,” adopted the 14-month-old wild animal Wally in 2015 when he rescued him in Florida.In a 2019 interview, he credited this cold-blooded animal with getting him through his battle with depression following the deaths of multiple of his closest friends. With the Philadelphia Inquirer.
His doctor even endorsed a 5.5-foot alligator as an emotional support animal.
Henney said the 8-year-old reptile is a gentle giant who has never tried to bite anyone and can sense people’s emotions.
Wally’s social media pages are filled with videos and photos of people hugging, snuggling, and even kissing the scaly creatures on the nose like little children. Henny brings exotic pets to her meet-and-greets and children’s birthday parties, and often poses for her photo shoots.
Henney said she is now distraught over the loss of her beloved crocodile, who went missing on April 21st.
He believes that the people who stole Wally from his fenced yard used him to play pranks on unsuspecting homeowners.
Henney said in a social media post that pranksters left the alligator outside his home, who reported the sighting to authorities, who then trapped it and released it into the wild.
According to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, a caller in the Brunswick area reported a “nuisance alligator” on April 21, the day Henney said Wally was missing, and a licensed trapper caught it. announced that he had come to
The agency said the alligator was “remotely released,” but added it did not know if it was Wally.
In Georgia, you can’t keep alligators as pets, but in Pennsylvania, where Wally and Hennie live, there are no laws against owning alligators.
“Wally is completely different. [than other alligators]. There’s no one else like him,” Henney said in her previous video.
