{"id":61621,"date":"2025-01-28T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tiktoks-emotional-support-alligator-spotted-in-public-and-the-internet-is-obsessed-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:22:10","slug":"tiktoks-emotional-support-alligator-spotted-in-public-and-the-internet-is-obsessed-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tiktoks-emotional-support-alligator-spotted-in-public-and-the-internet-is-obsessed-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok\u2019s emotional support alligator spotted in public and the internet is obsessed &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok\u2019s emotional support alligator spotted in public and the internet is obsessed TWITTER: BRIMILTikTok\u2019s beloved emotional support alligator was recently spotted in public and social media users are obsessed. The famed emotional support alligator, Wally, was seen at the LOVE Park on Friday, splashing around in the ground\u2019s water features. Twitter user Britt Miller was taking a walk with her baby daughter when she caught the adorable moment at the Center City park. \u201cWe were just walking by LOVE Park and saw this kid playing with an alligator in the fountain,\u201d she shared in another tweet. \u201cOf course, there was a ton of people around taking pictures. The girl (who had the alligator) seemed to be with her family, who were sitting off to the side. They were super friendly. People were picking up the alligator, petting it, all sorts of stuff.\u201d Britt learned that the alligator\u2019s name is Wally, which prompted speculation that it\u2019s the famous Wally Gator from York, Pennsylvania. The speculation was confirmed, after the emotional support alligator\u2019s TikTok account shared a wholesome video of Wally enjoying himself at the LOVE Park. Internet obsessed with emotional support alligator Wally Britt\u2019s tweet about spotting Wally cooling off at a park went viral with over 174,000 likes, as users were beyond delighted by the famed alligator. \u201cAwww, it\u2019s Wally! I met him when he was just a little guy. He and his owner are from my home town,\u201d one user wrote, sharing adorable photos of him when he was a baby. \u201cOH MY GOD WALLY I KNOW HIM!! He\u2019s from York PA and they come to a lot of the minor league baseball games there I adore him,\u201d another user shared. \u201cHe\u2019s living his best gator life,\u201d a third user tweeted. \u201cHe looks so happy,\u201d someone else replied. Wally, the 4-foot-long alligator, has 70,000 followers on TikTok, and has gone viral there multiple times. He\u2019s a licensed emotional support animal, accompanying his owner to cancer radiation treatments, his owner Joie Henney shared on TikTok. Joie has a GoFundMe page to help cover the cost of care for Wally and his other reptile friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok\u2019s emotional support alligator spotted in public and the internet is obsessed TWITTER: BRIMILTikTok\u2019s beloved emotional support alligator was recently spotted in public and social media users are obsessed. The famed emotional support alligator, Wally, was seen at the LOVE Park on Friday, splashing around in the ground\u2019s water features. Twitter user Britt Miller was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}