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On 3/11/2013 1:29 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


jmcquown wrote:

There are signs all over the island where I live (by the many stocked
ponds). "Do Not Feed the Alligators!". My mom told me when they first
started building homesites here (@30 years ago) people thought they
were quaint. Then dogs started going missing. Now, of course, the
Association has strict leash laws.

Jill

Never mind dogs, what about humans? There's a series on Animal Planet
about some people who have a Florida refuge for 'gators. Some of those
they "rescue" could easily consume an adult human! (And of course,
there are the non-native reptiles like pythons - some as long as twelve
feet - that irresponsible "pet owners" let loose in the Everglades when
they grow too big to keep as pets.)

Those folks with the sensational television shows should succumb to
Darwinism. Ditto people with non-native snakes. But this isn't the
Everglades and snakes like that aren't a problem around here.

The alligators here aren't like crocodiles from the 1930's 'Tarzan'
films, either. People don't bother them, they don't bother us. I
called Security when a 'gater was in my yard a year or so ago. (My house
isn't near one of those ponds or the marsh.) They sent someone to
"relocate" it.

Jill