Western Lake (Grayton) -- Alligator caught!

[scooterbug44]

They must all be coming through Destin to get to SoWal...there's a few hotel/restaurant signs screaming "Live Gators!! Daily Feedings!!" to 'showcase' their particular uniqueness on the strip.
It probably gets stuck in their subconscious, so when they see them in the wild they remember "Live Gators!! Daily Feedings!!" and think: 'Yeah!! That's a good idea!!!' ;-)

What's even sadder is that a trip to Fudpucker's is an approved educational field trip by the state of Florida ............. teaches them about "nature"! :roll:

 

[Minnie]

Thanks for the info. Does anybody know why it's illegal to feed gators in Florida?

Because it kills them. When alligators are fed by humans as Carmen stated you are sitting them up for an unnatural death. They become dependent on that easy meal and will eventually become agressive for it and become a nuisance.

Once they become a nuisance, then they are trapped and relocated. This works very seldom and they will again return to the site of the easy pickings, even traveling long distances to get there and then they end up having to be killed.

It is a very sad situation and is truly bad at Disney World where idiots think they are not even real alligators,

 

[Smiling JOe]

I just saw the gator bite story on TV, and they said that a trapper "had" to kill eight gators to find the one which ate the boy's arm, but they weren't able to use the arm for reattachment. (really) The boy was interviewed and stated that he could hear all of his friends screaming as he started to swim, but he thought they were cheering him on. He later found out that they were screaming because they saw the gator "tracking him."

The young man seems very sober now. Sometimes, alcohol makes us do some stupid sheet.

 

[Landlocked]

he thought they were cheering him on. He later found out that they were screaming because they saw the gator "tracking him."

Man that gave me the chills..:shock:

 

[Everytime]

Somewhere in my bank of photos, I have a couple of pics of what I think is this particular gator, taken about a year ago, when he was free to roam.

There was a photo in the Walton Sun a few years ago of a larger gator visiting the parking lot of Pandora's (possibly trying to get the Early Bird Prime Rib Special which the banner plane used to advertise). I think the Sheriff's office or Fish & Wildlife just put him back in one of the lakes north of 30-A.

 

[seagrovegirl]

There was a photo in the Walton Sun a few years ago of a larger gator visiting the parking lot of Pandora's (possibly trying to get the Early Bird Prime Rib Special which the banner plane used to advertise). I think the Sheriff's office or Fish & Wildlife just put him back in one of the lakes north of 30-A.

After it bit an un-named patron who decided to wrestle with it.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Is that Pandora's gator the one which got into a wrestling match with a particular local?

 

[seagrovegirl]

Is that Pandora's gator the one which got into a wrestling match with a particular local?

I think it is....this time I will NOT name names..............................

 

[Sand Angel]

I used to work at at state park with signs posted: "NO SWIMMING. ALLIGATORS IN LAKE." People constantly asked about swimming in the lake thinking we posted the signs just to scare them, not because there were really alligators in the lake. They would swim, or wade out to fish, and we would stop by occassionally and get them out so they didn't get eaten. We were tracking a large population of alligators in that particular lake, including a mama that was 16 feet long. She would come out and scare the sh**t out of people once in a while.

I never understood why people would not stay out of the water, or the next question was "Can we feed them?" Why would you want to feed a very large reptile that does not distinguish between you and the food you are trying to hand to it? Spent a lot of hours educating people there.... hope it helped a few at least.

 

[Everytime]

Is that Pandora's gator the one which got into a wrestling match with a particular local?

I thought the gator was taken without incident, but he/she would have been in clear sight of the Pandora's tiki bar, so if some patron was up for a gator wraslin' match, who knows...