LAKELAND, Fla. -- A woman is fighting to keep her 6-foot-long pet alligator in her home. The 125-pound reptile named Rambo wears clothes, rides on the back of a motorcycle and has a bedroom in Mary Thorn's home in Lakeland. Thorn has had a license for the alligator she's kept for 11 years, but it recently grew to 6 feet, and wildlife officials say an alligator that size must have 2.5 acres. Thorn said even if she had land, Rambo can't be left outdoors because of sensitivity to sunlight.
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