#Wally gator series#
Wally Gator appeared in Yogi's Ark Lark and its spin-off series Yogi's Gang.Twiddle (voiced by Don Messick) is the zookeeper who keeps a close watch on Wally because sometimes he escapes to check out what things are like outside the zoo. He is most comfortable when he is at home in the city zoo, but sometimes wanders out into the real world.
No special training is required.Wally Gator (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Ed Wynn) is an anthropomorphic Cajun alligator. Pretty much all you have to do to get an animal classified as an emotional support animal is go online and register. Any animal could be an emotional support critter - donkeys, skunks, ferrets, anything. Then he found the classification of emotional support animal. But the rules for service animals, mostly dogs, were pretty strict and required arduous training to be certified as such. He looked into getting Wally classified as a service animal. He believed that Wally, a pretty mellow reptile, had calming, even healing, powers, the same as a golden retriever that serves as a companion to someone in need of emotional support. Children with autism or Tourette's or other developmental issues would be mesmerized by Wally. It was during some of those programs that he noticed something. Joie takes Wally around to schools and senior centers, putting on programs about gators and educating people about them and the pressure on their habitats from development and other human activity. Gators, like all reptiles, grow the entire span of their lives, which for a gator, could be 55 to 80 years.) (He could eventually top out at 15 feet or so. Before he knew it, Wally was 4.5 feet long, a pretty good-sized reptile.
#Wally gator movie#
His favorite film is “The Lion King.” When that movie is on, Wally watches it through to the end. Wally loves to watch TV, his favorite shows being “Gator Guys” and “Swamp Boys,” resting his head on the edge of the living-room pond to watch the screen. He and Joie's other gator, Scrappy, a 2-year-old, reside in a 300-gallon pond he build in his living room. He was just like having a dog, save the notion that, at any given moment, he could bite your thumb off. (He can't stand a made bed and has to ruffle the blankets and sheets to make a nest, sort of like a dog.) He is still a wild animal, Joie said, emphasizing that you still have to be careful around him.īut he became a part of the household. After a while, Wally became as domesticated as he would ever become.