Investigators say more than 60 reptiles were left without water and heat in an abandoned warehouse in the Upstate.

It’s been more than three months since authorities made charges in the case, but the owner of the animals has still not been tracked down.

Nigel Platt says an alligator was laying in rotting food and his own filth when he found him.

Platt says, "I can only describe it as salmonella city, or it was a salmonella soup."

The tortoises, some of the non-venemous snakes, and the alligator can all be taken to schools and churches to educate kids, and all of the animals will stay at Safe Haven and Educational Adventures, a non-profit organization, where they will continue to receive care.

If the animals came from ‘salmonella city’ maybe taking them to a school isn’t the best idea.