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OLDSMAR, Fla. –- A central Florida woman found an unexpected, unwanted guest in her kitchen late Monday night -- an eight-foot-long alligator. Sandra Frosti, 69, says the gator pushed through the back porch screen door and then gained acces… Read more

EUGENE, Ore. –- Despite being attacked by a 12-foot python that wrapped around her and nearly bit her finger off, a pet store owner is fine and says she’s relieved the snake didn’t have to be killed. Teresa Rossiter, 46, owner of the st… Read more

SECAUCUS, N.J. – In a case that is like nothing Thurston County, Wash., officials have ever seen, a cat, four snakes, five mice and hundreds of rats were found to be living with an elderly woman. “It’s not hording at all,” said Susann… Read more

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. – A two-headed bearded dragon was one of the rarities born to a first time mother lizard, which hatched nine sets of twins out of a 29 egg clutch. While the nearly mythological baby lizard is a one in a million phenomenon… Read more

Of the few hundred species of snakes native to North America, Saadiq -- a Columbian red tail boa -- is not one of them. Yet, Saadiq is quite at home in Colorado, like many non-native snakes that are in U.S. homes as family pets. Still, Saadiq… Read more

ROANOKE, Va. -- Alligators are one of the usual suspects in the world of illegally kept exotic pets, but this time a Virginia teen has turned in a Nile crocodile he’d been keeping as his pet. At the pleading of his mother, the six-foot, 100… Read more