Amy Dyer lives in east Dallas, close to White Rock Lake where she's spotted tons of wildlife. "We've seen definitley big hawks. I've seen bobcats andcoyotes of course. I've even seen a wild hog at the lake. He was just grazing over near Lawther and Mockingbird."
Amy is permitted by the state to rehabilitate possums, a talent she perfected during the pandemic Spring of 2020 when the STEM teacher from Highland Park Presbyterian's Day School was sent home to virtually teach her class. "I have a friend, a retired police officer, and she is a state permitted rehabber, and that is how I got started. I rehabed a racoon, and I actually rehabbed 35 baby possums.
So whenever there is a strange animal in the nieghborhood everybody thinks Amy knows about them. So it was no surprise when her phone began to blowup last week while she was in the carpool pickup lane.
"A neighbor texted me that she thought she saw an alligator in the alley behind my house. Another neighbor texted me a picture." So they called the Texas Game Warden.
A wildlife official responded and got the alligator which had burrowed under a neighbors house. "It was definitely a baby, about 2 feet long nose-to-tip. It looked a lot smaller in the Game Warden's hands than it did when it was laying out on the ground. He thought is was likely someone probably caught it and kept it as a pet and thought 'oh no it's getting big' and released it."
The gator is being relocated to a remote area of the Trinity River.
Amy recieved many comments to her social media post about the gator which was found in the alley. Her favorite, the person who wrote that the two-foot animal is obviously an "alley gator."
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