It is mating season for gators now. Two weeks ago, around 5 am, my rescue puppy needed to go to the bathroom so I went downstairs and opened the screen door to our fenced in yard. In the pitch black darkness, I heard this loud, low and very long growl. I was freaked out as it growled twice more in the darkness. I went back inside and tried to think if I was imagining it. I tried again about a half hour later and my other dog stepped food on the screened in porch, froze and then ran back inside and hid in fear. A very large gator had tried to burrow under the gate to our wood fence, leaving a hole under the gate almost a food deep/wide.
Yeah.... I stop, look and listen now with all the stadium lights around our house on full bright. The amorous gator making the rounds lives in the lake across the street and he is a big ol’ boy.
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They make a distinctive sound that you never forget once you’ve heard it......................
That’s strange. Gator mating season when I was in Gainesville consisted of sorority girls saying “I’m so wasted”..........