If you are a thief and you come onto my property you have me to deal with. If you are an animal and you come onto my property with intent to do harm to me or mine, you have me to deal with. You can take it to the bank that the gator in question saw both the man and the dog in the back yard and still went for the dog. Hence, you have a rouge gator that has lost his fear of man. 1 + 1 = Kill the gator before he moves on from dogs near water to stealing my rump roast off the grill and next to coming through the screen door after my wife. Yes that would be the extreme case, but if you don't think that is possible, you know nothing about animal behavior. Sorry but that is the way I feel.
So the Bottom Line: As much as I like to see the gators in the ponds if they become so relaxed that they do not skitter away when a man is within 50 to 100 feet of them, its time for alligator soup.
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