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Alligators in the Sewers – One Year After Capture

zoo-reggiejpg.JPGReggie has been in the zoo for a year now.

We followed the story about Reggie, the suburban alligator, almost from the start:

Alligators in the Sewers – Still!
Alligators in the Sewers – Part IV
Alligators in the Sewers – Part V
Alligators in the Sewers – Part VI
Alligators in the Sewers – Part VII
Alligators in the Sewers – Epilogue?
Alligators in the Sewers – Reggie, Where Ya Been?
Alligators in the Sewers – The Epilogue

Unfortunately, some of the earlier posts (Parts I, II and III) were lost when we converted from our old blog format to WordPress.

The story started when a San Pedro resident introduced the alligator to Machado Lake in a Harbor City Park when he decided that he couldn’t keep his exotic pet any longer. Authorities later traced the animal to the resident and brought appropriate charges.

The alligator, however, managed to elude potential captors for a couple of years and laid low in the park’s lake. The ‘gator became a celebrity in his own right as sightings by park visitors continued to be reported.

A year ago, a team from the Los Angeles Zoo managed to snare the reclusive reptile.

Here’s a report on the health and welfare of our favorite ‘gator from the Daily Breeze:

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24 May 2008 by Critters Environment

Alligators in the Sewers – The Epilogue

For a couple of years, we have been posting about Reggie, the alligator. Now, it appears that he has been relocated to the Los Angeles Zoo. Before the capture, one of my colleagues took this shot of Reggie floating serenely on Lake Machado in the Harbor City District of Los Angeles.

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Photo credit & © Des Wong (used by permission)

Life was getting good for Reggie the alligator.

The scaly, 7-foot-long abandoned pet had basked in his own legend on the shores of Machado Lake for nearly two years.

Sightseers by the hundreds came to get a glimpse of the creature that had eluded professional gator wranglers over the months.

But about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Reggie’s luck simply ran out.

Read the rest of the story about Reggie’s capture (South Bay Breeze):

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25 May 2007 by California Critters Photography

Alligators in the Sewers Part VII

Here’s an update on our reclusive crocodilian neighbor:

Sun’s out, and so are trappings of spring

The latest in the arsenal to try to catch Harbor City’s renegade alligator, an 8-by-3-foot metal trap, has been left at the shore by Los Angeles recreation and parks officials in recent days, carefully positioned on the far side of Machado Lake amid the thick, floating vegetation.

The trap sits in an area where the alligator, a former pet named Reggie, was last seen in October and is camouflaged, mostly hidden from public view.

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Read our previous alligator articles

20 Apr 2006 by California Environment

Alligators in the Sewers – Part VI

With spring approaching, flowers are in bloom, the mocking birds sing all night long and the alligators come out in Machado Park.

Reggie: Part II is expected to open at lake in April

The original Alligator Tale of Harbor City had quite a cast of characters, including Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. The sequel is shaping up nicely.

Rise and shine.

It’s spring. The sun is shining and temperatures are climbing. The days are growing longer.

Can Reggie’s reawakening be far behind?

Harbor City’s elusive alligator hasn’t been seen since October, when a reptile’s normal winter hibernating season begins.

But Russ Smith, reptile curator for the Los Angeles Zoo, says the South Bay’s favorite watery beast should be stirring back to life any time now in Machado Lake, where he’s eluded capture since August after he was allegedly released illegally over the summer by his owners.

“It’s going to be soon,” Smith said of the alligator’s expected resurfacing. “I still think March would be a good possibility, but I imagine the (recent) cold weather probably pushed things back a little bit. It will probably be April now.”

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Previous articles on Reggie:

Also for your amusement: Reggie not ready for close-up.

28 Mar 2006 by California Environment

Alligators in the Sewers, Part V

The story surrounding Reggie, the alligator in Harbor Regional Park, keeps getting stranger and stranger.

From the Daily Breeze: The alligator is still at large, but T-Bone isn’t

Sometimes you’re the hunter and sometimes you’re the prey.

Thomas “T-Bone” Quinn, the colorful New Orleans man who tried — and failed — last month to catch a defiant alligator loitering in a Harbor City lake, has himself been captured and shipped back home, court records show.

Quinn was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies Oct. 20 and extradited to Louisiana Nov. 5. Quinn’s mother said he was trying to start a new life in Los Angeles when he was nabbed for outstanding warrants related to probation violations. It seems Quinn was on parole, after serving time in prison for writing bad checks, said Sandy Quinn Barton from her home in Augusta, Ga. “He knew he was going to get picked up,” she said. “He’d have to know that. This is not his first rodeo.”

Photo: Thomas “T-Bone” Quinn – Brad Davison/Daily Breeze

Read the entire story.

13 Nov 2005 by California Environment

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