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Why would you abandon a cold blooded animal outside in the winter? I hope they find the person who did this and they destroy them.

Some people suck

Calling /r/smoking

Im sure they will be happy to speak to the officials about their illegal activity.

People get real fuckin dumb about keeping gators or caymans. These aren’t pets, holy crap

I use this Tom Segura quote too much these days 🤣

Torpor is a thing. You think someone takes in all the turtles and frogs when the weather gets cold and the water freezes?

The turtles and frogs that experience torpor tend to be able to handle that weather. Alligators do not typically life in places that hit the low 30s F.

They wanted to kill it.

People who get these exotic animals as pets love em when they're small, but at this point the gator was eating whole chickens each day.

They probably became a danger to the owner (which is why they aren't good pets), who got rid of it.

https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-com-alligators-frozen-lakes-stick-snouts-out-ice-survive-1768498

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/frozen-alligators-stick-noses-through-ice-to-survive-in-oklahoma

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/01/09/alligators-survive-icy-conditions-orig-vstan.cnn

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-frozen-alligators-aren-t-dead-they-re-displaying-a-creepy-survival-strategy

>...he decided some scientific research was in order, or at least some hurried googling. Relief washed over him as the search results loaded: His alligators were alive. They were surviving in the freezing water by sticking their snouts through the ice. Howard's worry was replaced with another emotion: astonishment.

The catch is they are in water. The top of the lake is frozen but the water under is not. This gator is outside.

And the alligator in the picture was in water.

So it was. Huzzah it is likely to be safer