Iowa's ARL Animal Rescue Team thought they were responding to reports of a loose alligator. Instead, they found a life-sized plush toy. Iowa's ARL Animal Rescue Team thought they were responding ...

May 5 (UPI) --Animal services officers in Iowa were called to an apartment complex on a report of an alligator on the loose, but they arrived to find the reported reptile was a life-sized plush toy.

And he owes it all to an alligator he calls Cool Hand Luke. Photos of Bedard, a South Florida trapper and star of the Animal Planet show Gator Boys, have been making the rounds on social media ...

but rather a realistic-looking alligator toy. Might this be the work of an April Fools Day prankster? Who knows, but the Plano Animal Shelter had fun with the situation, tweeting, "You never know ...