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Wildlife officials captured a 3-ft-long alligator after fishermen spied the animal at Grandpa’s Fishing Pond. Officials chose to euthanize the reptile.

Moe, a domesticated chimpanzee, disappeared from Jungle Exotics. Experts believed he was in the San Bernardino Forest. The couple who raised Moe were viciously attacked by two other chimps in 2005 when they attempted to visit Moe for his birthday at the sanctuary.

Police responding to a domestic dispute entered an apartment and found three glass tanks containing dangerous snakes, including a Gaboon viper, a Venezuelan rattlesnake, and a pigmy rattlesnake. Kent County SPCA confiscated the snakes and destroyed them.

A 7-ft-long python devoured one of several doves that came to a resident’s birdfeeder. The resident killed the snake with a tree limb.

Deputies arrested two people after finding more than 150 dead birds, along with 300 live neglected fowl, at a mobile home just outside the town limits. Two peacocks were among those found alive, along with dogs, one donkey and one miniature horse. The couple were charged with animal cruelty and neglect and three counts of child desertion.

Several deer who escaped from a wildlife park were rounded up and returned to the facility without incident.

Several foxes were spied roaming the Stoney Cove complex, and while a TV reporter was covering story, a grey fox walked in front of him. Residents say the foxes have been roaming the area for weeks. Animal Control officials trapped a white fox that morning.

A local woman opened her mailbox to discover a 3-ft-long corn snake inside. Police captured the snake and took him to a “pet” store. Pet store employees speculated that the snake was probably someone’s “pet.”

A local man accidently ran over an alligator that was in the middle of Highway 107. Virginia wildlife officials picked up the animal and had it examined to determine where it may have originated.

Spunky, a Rhesus monkey running loose in the yard of a couple’s home, was recaptured and brought to Spartanburg Animal Shelter. The couple who were Spunky’s possessors were being investigated for dumping toxic waste on roads in the Lyman area.