Posted on 05/09/2009 11:08:26 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude
PHOTOS PROVIDED BY DARRYL SJOBERG
Nokomis resident Jan Keith found an 8-foot long alligator on her front porch in the Calusa Lakes subdivision Friday morning. Trapper Harry Flechig and two Sarasota County Sheriff's deputies quickly captured the animal.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldtribune.com ...
Keith was getting ready to leave her house around 9:30 a.m. when a neighbor called to warn her that a big bull gator was camping out on her front porch.
It was not a huge surprise to Keith. The Calusa Lakes golf course community she has called home for 14 years is something of a gator haven, with residents sighting animals up to 12 feet in length over the years.
"We've had a few in the neighborhood like that before," she said. "We get some big ones."
Still, eight feet is nothing to take lightly, said trapper Harry Flechig.
This is one of the ThreePuttinDudettes customers.
Jan, called TPDette after all of the camera crews had gone
to tell her of the adventure. TPDette is walking up that
very sidewalk every other Friday. LOL
YIKES, gators can be spooky.
I think it’s sad they couldn’t relocate the alligator and killed it instead. :(
That is one good looking gator, nice smile!
He sure knows how to get his 15 minutes...LOL
If you just ignore them they will go away.
Gators are no longer endangered or threatened, but they are still protected by law as if they were.
There are so many alligators in Florida, they have to have some way to thin the population, so they allow trappers to kill (and sell) the nuisance gators.
We live on a golf course, and have lots of gators in the area. If a gator becomes agressive (i.e. kills a dog, or doesn’t run back into the water when someone approaches, they’ll usually have them trapped.) Last one trapped in our water hazard (small lake) after it killed a dog measured 10 1/2 feet (it had killed a large dog, a boxer...so it could have easily killed a small child as well.) They become nuisance gators when they lose their fear of man.
Smaller gators they don’t mess with. We had one that wandered into our backyard through the open back gate, and it was only 5 foot...animal control won’t even come out for a gator that size. They just said to leave the gate open and it’d find it’s way back to the lake (which it did.)
It’s illegal in Florida for homeowners to hurt or kill gators on their property, even if they’re eating the family pet, or something or someone else on their property (must get the authorities involved to do that). Hence, as with all libtard policies gators have grown exponentially in population and are threatening human beings. The libtards applaud because human beings are ‘the problem’ and gators and other carnivores wiping out the ‘human virus’ is part of the solution.
Neighbors have to report you first ;)
Wht’s the rule for *humans* on your property?
I’m really glad TPDette didn’t have to work there yesterday! Jeez, that would have scared the daylights out of her!
LOL, you know it would have...LOL
LOL, you know it would have...LOL
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