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8-foot alligator in Van Nuys backyard may have killed pets for decades
Los Angeles Daily News ^
| January 14, 2015
| Steven Rosenberg
Posted on 01/14/2015 7:13:23 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

The alligator had nothing to do with it.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:15:09 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
("Hey, I don't appreciate your lack of sarcasm.")
To: EveningStar; Slings and Arrows
don’t people know there is a lease law for...oh skip it!
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:15:33 PM PST
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
To: EveningStar
Keeping an alligator for a pet in your backyard is NUTS.
However, if it is YOUR backyard and doesn’t roam about, then the pets it is eating had to stray into its territory.
Surprised it hasn’t been discovered until now.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:18:11 PM PST
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: EveningStar
“Bobby, have you seen ‘Fluffy’?” Marsha
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:22:42 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:28:42 PM PST
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: tumblindice
I think you mean “Tiger”, no?
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:29:02 PM PST
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: EveningStar
Getting rid of noisy rat dogs should be a paying job.
Still, as others noted, how did the gator get access to the yappers? Go for cruises around the neighborhood and then return home?
Good thing he was not like a cat and leave the catch on the doorstep for praise.
To: EveningStar
Live in western Colorado. A recently discovered coyote den had an impressive array of dog collars ... sort of like a trophy wall.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:41:54 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: EveningStar
I think the coyote a more likely culprit. Gators kill their prey by drowning and they store what they don’t eat in the first go round underwater. So what body of water did this gator have access to where it could stash its kill?
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:43:22 PM PST
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
To: lefty-lie-spy
I don’t know the name of the Brady’s cat, no bro’.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:54:32 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: lastchance
During that surprise visit Monday, the alligator estimated to be 8 feet long was found, along with the carcasses of two dead cats. The carcasses were impounded along with the alligator, officials said.
Owner Laura Mattson says the alligator belonged to her husband, who got the alligator as a baby in 1977. When her husband died a few years ago, she took on Jaxsons care, as well as the care of neutered feral cats that were taken to her home by a cat rescue organization.
No, I don't think in this case that is true.
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posted on
01/14/2015 7:54:57 PM PST
by
occamrzr06
(A great life is but a series of dogs!)
To: tumblindice
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:10:53 PM PST
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: lefty-lie-spy
Yep. A cool cat named ‘Greg’ I think.
My wife brought him to her school to speak about his experiences with Florence & Marsha and he turned out to a pretty good guy. Or cat.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:18:44 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: occamrzr06
Wonder if the cat rescue is called “Meals on Wheels”...
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:20:37 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: occamrzr06
Well, that’s one way to take care of feral cats, I suppose.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:21:04 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:48:13 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: PAR35
But then the alligators get under foot, and you have to bring in baboons with spears.
And Californians don’t have guns, do they? So what happens when the Van Nuyseans start saying, “Stop pointing that spear at me you dirty ape!”
They get speared, that’s what. And they wish for the bygone, halcyon summer days of feral cats in Willoughby.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:59:21 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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