USA – Meet Rambo, a gentle alligator whose Florida owner says he “eats at the dinner table, sleeps in my bed and follows me around like my dogs.”

But now his owner, 55-year-old Mary Thorn, is fighting to keep him since she was recently denied a permit for the 125-pound gator. Thorn told ABC News today that she’s had a permit to keep the 15-year-old alligator ever since she rescued and brought him home more than seven years ago, when Rambo was just a little over a foot long.

However, the gator has since grown to be over 6 feet long, and a recently added condition for a permit says that gators over 6 feet need to be kept on a property with at least 2.5 acres of land, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife (FWC) spokesman Gary Morse.(goodmorningamerica)…[+]