Obamanut's Addendeum to Trumad's Course on Gators

[obamanut2012]

1. Anything larger than a puddle in Florida has at least one gator in it, often including swimming pools.

2. Gators can climb fences.

3. Getting within fifty feet of fresh water in Florida, especially at night, is madness.

[rjsquirrel]

1. It's not madness

Gators kill very few humans.

[obamanut2012]

11. It is madness

They love getting dogs.

[rjsquirrel]

13. Gators were around before dogs

[GOLGO 13]

2. Shoes & matching belts.

Don't want no big lizards in my back yard.

[liberal N proud]

3. Exactly

[Raissa]

4. Gators are more predictable than...

... The wild hogs.

I've been chased by those bastards!

I've also had a monkey in my trees. Florida keeps my life interesting (and I admittedly love it)!

[obamanut2012]

9. The wild pigs are horrible!

[Aerows]

18. Locked in a room

Prefer a feral hog or an alligator?

Ya'll make fun, but I am asking.

[n2doc]

5. They ring doorbells too

[Fumesucker]

6. The Alligator Always Rings Twice

[GulfCoast66]

8. That house

Needs a Door Buzzard!

[Hekate]

14. The alligator ate the buzzard

[Aerows]

17. Don't go there.

Vultures provide a very vital function in any habitat.

[Hekate]

19. This is the door buzzard we are speaking of. True, it has a vital function...

So maybe the true scenario is that it flapped off before the alligator could eat it.

[Aerows]

20. The Great horned owl "hoot owl"

probably grabbed the best offerings at the buffet.

[hlthe2b]

7. I have to admit to surprise that there is (apparently) a total lack of awareness of alligators--

their near ubiquitous habitat in south Florida--as well as the risks. I realize there are plenty of things I don't know, but this lack of awareness does surprise me and undoubtedly explains a lot why "no swimming" signs Disney put up did not have the same meaning, inference, or context for the family (tourists) as it would have for me, and presumably, most in Florida and coastal/bayou regions of the south.

[obamanut2012]

10. We know to be careful around the critters

They are deceptively fast. One big pond I run by a lot has all these little "logs" in the water floating around ie gators! I see retirees from up north walking their little dogs REALLY close to the shore, and it always freaks me out. They will get the dog.

[Aerows]

16. It puzzles me

that anybody is unaware of these facts.

[tblue37]

12. And yet the resort held a "Beach Night" movie showing and encouraged families to

come down to the beach during gator feeding hours--without warning visitors from out of state that there could be gators or that a gator can come up onto the beach after a prey-sized child.

The blue circle in this picture shows where the movie screen is placed:

[Aerows]

15. Addendum

Everybody with two brain cells to rub together will tell you that crepuscular (dusk or dawn) is pretty much the time that you will get eaten.

It's nuts to have to even explain this.

[Aerows]

21. May I make a statement?

Louisiana wildlife is what I am most familiar with, and have trudged through more bayous, coolies, and swamps than is normal.

Things you don't mess with: Feral hogs, alligators or water moccasins.

Other snakes, lizards and little mammals like mice? Fine.