What do you think?
A sick waste of money or a sweet attempt to care for another species?
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Xavier's gators raise funds for stranded alligators and their buddies
Apr. 20, 2005 12:00 AM
With love from one group of gators to another.
Students from Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix took their mascot, the Gator, to heart on Tuesday by selling carnations to benefit 32 alligators impounded during a traffic stop near Casa Grande. A Highway Patrol officer discovered the gators in a fifth-wheel trailer on Sunday night.
Proceeds from the flower sale will be donated to the Phoenix Herpetological Society in north Scottsdale, where the animals are being held. advertisement
Students want the funds - $75 so far - to be used for alligator food. The fund-raiser continues today.
Arizona Game and Fish confiscated the alligators when their owner failed to produce documentation for the restricted animals. The menagerie included more than 30 snakes, rabbits, rats, chickens and dogs and three tortoises that were believed to be endangered.
- Lindsey Collom
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Xavier's gators raise funds for stranded alligators and their buddies
Apr. 20, 2005 12:00 AM
With love from one group of gators to another.
Students from Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix took their mascot, the Gator, to heart on Tuesday by selling carnations to benefit 32 alligators impounded during a traffic stop near Casa Grande. A Highway Patrol officer discovered the gators in a fifth-wheel trailer on Sunday night.
Proceeds from the flower sale will be donated to the Phoenix Herpetological Society in north Scottsdale, where the animals are being held. advertisement
Students want the funds - $75 so far - to be used for alligator food. The fund-raiser continues today.
Arizona Game and Fish confiscated the alligators when their owner failed to produce documentation for the restricted animals. The menagerie included more than 30 snakes, rabbits, rats, chickens and dogs and three tortoises that were believed to be endangered.
- Lindsey Collom