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.

The viral story in Cheboygan making headlines statewide, a man staying at a local motel left without his pet alligator, ...

Staff at a Michigan motel have been left shocked after discovering a live alligator left behind by a recent guest. The three-foot-long reptile, named Wally, was found at the Pine River Motel in ...

An investigation revealed the alligator had been left behind by a guest, an exotic animal handler, police said. The man was in Cheboygan with “several exotic animals” for presentations with elementary ...

Wally, a three-feet alligator, was found making himself comfortable under a bed at a hotel room in Michigan by shocked staff ...

A worker at the Pine River Motel in Cheboygan on Friday, March 14, 2025, found a 3-foot alligator under a bed. It had been left behind by a man who had been showing the alligator at local schools.

He didn't try biting anybody or anything. But ... he hissed at me and that was probably pretty much to say, 'Leave me alone.'” ...

A video was sent in by a viewer of an alligator in a room at Pine River Motel. The Cheboygan Police Department says motel staff found the alligator, named Wally, on Friday while cleaning the room ...