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Originally Posted by samhass
Last year a gator grabbed my neighbor's dog. Bounce lived to tell the tale. Yesterday I thought Bounce was going to get bitten by a snake in my yard but that dog has nine lives. I pulled apart two large pots and a magnificent corn snake was in the bottom pot. Bounce and Gator Gus were visiting and Bounce stuck his nose right in the pot. The bite would have been non-poisonous, but unpleasant.
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If I remember that incident - and if it is the same one - the dog was off the leash and running loose when an alligator grabbed it. The gator was killed just because the dog's owner could not follow rules and keep the dog on a leash.
Secondly, very, very doubtful if a corn snake would have bitten a dog's nose. Corn snakes are not apt to bite. BTW, the proper term is non-venomous. A venom is injected as by a snake's fangs. A poison has to be ingested as by someone eating a poisonous mushroom.
If I see parents and kids feeding one of the alligators at Lake Sumter off the boardwalk, I always tell them they are signing the death warrant for that animal - and I try to make them feel very bad about it. I also tell them there is a $400 fine for feeding alligators. You may think this is a wrong thing to tell them but lots of people do not know what happens when a wild animal becomes dependent on people for food.