Dodge City outlaws alligators, crocs as pets
Officials in Dodge City have removed any doubt about what's an acceptable pet in city limits.
Dogs, cats, ferrets, some birds and reptiles are fine. But alligators, crocodiles, Komodo dragons that can grow up to eight feet long — those, the city says, are not "companion animals" that qualify as pets.
The Dodge City Daily Globe reports the City Commission this week expanded the list of forbidden pets following a recent municipal court case over a pet alligator. City Clerk Nanette Pogue says the prosecutor and judge thought the current description of "companion animals" was too vague.
Also newly outlawed as pets are monitor lizards, caimans and anaconda snakes.
Now, anyone intent on keeping a pet crocodile might want to think about getting out of Dodge.
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