[PaPaLarry]

Originally Posted by firewalkerb3

I guess you can speak for the residents in the Villages, however wrong you are. If calling me an alligator killer was meant to be offensive, well it worked. Not all alligators are destroyed, many are relocated. I don’t have a % of the total per year in the Villages that are killed or relocated. I don’t track that data. I cannot think of anyone in or out of the Villages with a nuisance problem who did not know what the outcome of the gator would be, we always tell them. Eradication of the gators is not our intent, if this was the expectation I would find a different job. As to how the gator is trapped most of the time it a single hook inside bait (beef lung) floating or hanging depending on the terrain. The gator bites it, the hook catches it and it is removed. If you have a different way I’m open to the suggestion. Some people are opposed to removable of alligators, and I respect that. I’m opposed to any killing of Gods creations for no reason. However the ones we remove have posed a threat to humans or domestic animals. You can’t just call in and have a gator removed; you will have to prove the gator is a problem. Sure someone can lie and fabricate a story and the gator would be removed, I would not want to live with that. Now my opinion when I arrive as to the gators being a threat or not has no bearing on it, we all have a reasonable expectation of safety. And we all have a right to make full use of our property without what we perceive as a threat. This post is about a man jumping on an alligator to save his dog, I would not advise anyone to do this. Was he lucky? Sure he was and his dog was lucky. Was it heroic? People will always have mixed opinions on that, I believe Steve is the type of guy who would have done the same thing if it would have been a person. Steve is a kind and loving man, the kind of guy that I proud to call a friend. The man raises butterfly, builds nest for ducks to lay and hatch their eggs secure from threats. Good job Steve, now don’t do it again.