Workers snap to it to care for gator

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Public works employees in a New York village had to step lively when they discovered a 3-foot alligator outside the department's garage.

Now the Mount Kisco water plant employees are stepping lively to find it a suitable home, The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., reported.

Clues about the gator's former home were non-existent -- only a plywood crate with the warning, "Do not open. Live Gator."

Given the crate showed up at the garage on Halloween, they didn't heed to the warning. But after it hissed when someone tapped on the crate's side, the workers became believers.

"We didn't touch it because we like our fingers where they are," said Ed Sordellini, a 39-year-old machine operator.

Humane society officials say leave the care and feeding of the gator to the experts.

"We put in a call to our exotic specialist, hoping he will have some leads for us," said Shannon Laukhuf, acting SPCA executive director. "We've never had anything like this before."