Wally, a 3-foot dwarf alligator, was visiting Cheboygan elementary schools before his owner left him in a motel room, thinking he had escaped.

We just went in to clean the room and, when my nephew looked under the bed, Wally was there,” motel manager Gary said.

Livingston Parish Sheriff's deputies wrangled a 9-foot alligator out of someone's kitchen Thursday night with the help of a volunteer and released the ambitious gator back into the wild. " ...