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Originally Posted by mulligan
For those that have a casual attitude about gators being present, i believe you may assume if there's a body of water, there's probably a gator in it.
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Our house backs on two small and shallow retention ponds. Before we purchased the house, we asked some of the neighbours who had lived in the area for six years: "Have you ever seen a gator here". They all said: "No, it's impossible, the ponds are too small".
Last May, guess what,
a small gator was sunning himself in the grass beside one of the puddles. We have a picture. He didn't stay around long, I assume he was travelling through the irrigation pipes.
We have invisible fencing for our dogs in our back yard. And the ponds are away from the house, down in a ravine. Still, we always supervise our dogs when they are outside. If you back on water, please don't let your kitties or pooches out unsupervised.