After 18 years, alligator gets new home at LA Zoo

This undated photo provided by the Pasadena Humane Society shows Tina, a female alligator who has lived at the Humane Society's shelter for the past 18 years in Pasadena, Calif. Tina will soon have a new home. She's scheduled to move to the Los Angeles Zoo Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, where she will join a local celebrity alligator - Reggie. Reggie was illegally raised as a pet and then dumped in Harbor City's Machado Lake in 2005 before he was captured and taken to the zoo two years later. (Pasadena Humane Society/SPCA via AP) This undated photo provided by the Pasadena Humane Society shows Tina, a female alligator who has lived at the Humane Society's shelter for the past 18 years in Pasadena, Calif. Tina will soon have a new home. She's scheduled to move to the Los Angeles Zoo Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, where she will join a local celebrity alligator - Reggie. Reggie was illegally raised as a pet and then dumped in Harbor City's Machado Lake in 2005 before he was captured and taken to the zoo two years later. (Pasadena Humane Society/SPCA via AP)

By Associated Press August 9, 2016 2 min read

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Pasadena Humane Society is saying: See you later, alligator.

After 18 years at the shelter north of Los Angeles, Tina the alligator was scheduled to be moved Wednesday from her private pool to the alligator enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo.

The 7-foot-long, 100-pound gator will share space with a celebrity: Reggie the alligator.

Reggie was illegally raised as a pet and then dumped in Harbor City’s Machado Lake in 2005. Reggie became the stuff of songs and T-shirts before he was captured two years later.

Tina, named after Tina Turner, is 28 years old and could have a long life ahead of her. An alligator named Methuselah was believed to be around 70 when he died at the zoo in 2010.