Posted on 05/20/2026 1:34:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You can’t spell “graduation” without “gator.” A graduating McNeese State University student is shocking the internet with a senior photoshoot with a 14-foot alligator named Big Al — including one shot where she’s planting a smooch right on the gator’s snout, her face mere inches from its wide-open jaws.
The photo is nuts — but not quite as nuts as it might seem. Kat Daley, 22, who helps run Gator Country in Beaumont, Texas, with her fiancé Eddie said she wasn’t frightened during the shoot — and that it wasn’t her first time being face-to-face with an alligator.
“I really wanted to highlight what I do with these animals every day and what they mean to me,” the glam coed told The Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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It’s all fun and games until Big Al decides she tastes like chicken.
I suppose these are legit but my first reaction is AI.
Not often the Darwin awards are so well photographed. No award this time but this lady seems determined.
Ohhhhh Gator Country.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1OsQBbbqgM
“Not often the Darwin awards are so well photographed. No award this time but this lady seems determined.”
She does this for a living ...
I don’t think the gator views this as kissing. I think the gator views it as sampling a snack.
Just wondering if they make sure they are well fed before interacting?
Maybe it’s a vegan alligator...
“Maybe it’s a vegan alligator...”
Maybe? It ain’t my circus and she ain’t my monkey. I’d take better care of my stuff. And I’m a effing Red Neck. Just sayin.
Well fed, or recently doubled-dosed with Grampy’s Nerve Tonic.
At least it wasn’t a “French” gator.....
And pictures too, ought to try it sometime.
Even so the Seigfried and Roy incident shows one never knows and those two had worked with big cats for years.
She’s a cutie. Tasty, too, I’ll bet.
Why? Why would you smile at a crocodile?
Tabasco sauce?
Hahahahahahaha! Excellent!
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