June 20 (UPI) -- A Texas wildlife worker dispatched to remove an alligator from someone's stoop found that it wasn't an alligator after all -- it was a small lizard.
The Houston Chronicle reported that Texas Parks and Wildlife directed Christy Kroboth, who works for Gator Squad, an alligator-extraction business, to a Houston-area home where residents reported a gator above their door.
Once at the home, Kroboth saw the gator was actually a small lizard. She caught the lizard and released it in a neighbor's yard.
"Really, some people need to get back to the city," Gator Squad wrote on its Facebook page June 16.
It isn't the first time Houston-area residents have confused another animal with an alligator, Kroboth told the Chronicle.
"Last year I had a call for an alligator trapped on a back porch," Kroboth said "The caller said the alligator had a long tail and sharp teeth. It turned out to be an opossum."
