[blueash]

I live on a lake where for many months we have watched an alligator swim by daily and do his alligator things. He has harmed no one including the golfers on the other side of the lake. But he is a big gator, about eight feet. Today a black truck comes with three young men and a permit and gear to "remove" the gator because of a complaint. They are licensed to do this by the state of Florida. It turns out that a person who is here only a few weeks a year maintaining his deceased parent's home requested this removal because he is worried about his four dogs which he lets out without being leashed might be attacked by the gator. While we won't get into the he shouldn't have four dogs, nor should they be outside unleashed, nor should his sister in law be staying there for three months, etc... It seems there might have been some mechanism to have the state authorities ask the other neighbors about their desire to have the gator stay or go. And for them to ascertain the actual risk to the dog(s) if the person would not let them out unleashed. After all this is a house on a lake in Florida where gators can be expected to be part of the environment.
So they baited a line, attached to a float, and played gator mating music over a speaker and left and over one hour after the gator had been caught and was struggling they returned to the lake to find the gator stuck on the line, then removed the animal. Consider this an open invitation to any gator looking for a new home.

[ssmith]

...I can tell that you loved watching that gator! Maybe one of his friends will move in !

[ceejay]

That really stinks...

[angiefox10]

Mating music???? Should I ask????

[TOTV Team]

Originally Posted by angiefox10

Mating music???? Should I ask????

[Bogie Shooter]

On what lake? Was it in TV?

[golf2140]

Originally Posted by blueash

I live on a lake where for many months we have watched an alligator swim by daily and do his alligator things. He has harmed no one including the golfers on the other side of the lake. But he is a big gator, about eight feet. Today a black truck comes with three young men and a permit and gear to "remove" the gator because of a complaint. They are licensed to do this by the state of Florida. It turns out that a person who is here only a few weeks a year maintaining his deceased parent's home requested this removal because he is worried about his four dogs which he lets out without being leashed might be attacked by the gator. While we won't get into the he shouldn't have four dogs, nor should they be outside unleashed, nor should his sister in law be staying there for three months, etc... It seems there might have been some mechanism to have the state authorities ask the other neighbors about their desire to have the gator stay or go. And for them to ascertain the actual risk to the dog(s) if the person would not let them out unleashed. After all this is a house on a lake in Florida where gators can be expected to be part of the environment.
So they baited a line, attached to a float, and played gator mating music over a speaker and left and over one hour after the gator had been caught and was struggling they returned to the lake to find the gator stuck on the line, then removed the animal. Consider this an open invitation to any gator looking for a new home.

Same thing happened to the Buffalo. Grandad leans over the fence with grand-daughter. Buffalo bumps grand-daughter. Pop sues. We loose our friends because of a suit.

[kb8tpw]

Another case of the imbeciles ruling - sick.......

[hedoman]

Mating Music?

Sinatra? Miles Davis? Barry White? Crocodile Rock?

Do they remove bad neighbors too?

[blueash]

The music was an auditory montage of charming grunts and snorts. I'm sure it sounded better to the gator. Yes this was here in TV, a lake on the Mallory golf course. I've always wondered if the Bison left because of litigation, or the opportunity to develop the land into high profit housing was too much to ignore.

[skyguy79]

Hopefully if was a happy ending for the gator!

[joannej]

Part of enjoying TV is enjoying the nature that's here too. I wonder how that man would feel if someone reported his 4 dogs running loose around the lake? Somehow common sense should prevail. I can tell that you are missing "friend".

[Dennis Ga]

Now that the Big Fellow has been taken away, maybe 2 or 3 little ones will take his place as they would not hsve been welcomed into his home.

[joannej]

Would the owner of the dogs report the little gators too? Sad to say.

[JAV0108]

I have heard that once a gator reaches 8 feet in any Villages water ways, they get transported to new digs. That is just something I have heard I don't know if it is true.