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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I'm not sure she's going to make it to her next birthday.
Laz: “I’d hit that AND have a new pair of shoes!”
Voted most likely to die after trying to pet some animal she shouldn’t.
Nothing personal here just getting by, making my way, knowing what I’m saying? Let me, aah never mind. “ I already broke it down for ya “!!
“Her pictures are the before.”
Not her first rodeo.
“Best comment from the site:”
Most uneducated comment from the site.
I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
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There isnt a lot of meat or fat on her bones.
The gator may need a big drinkie poo to wash her down.
(once she softens)
Voted most likely to die after trying to pet some animal she shouldn’t.
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All that money spent on tuition...
“Voted most likely to die after trying to pet some animal she shouldn’t.”
It is her gator. She knows what she is doing inpite of all the stupid comments.
LOL
Well, at least on this forum we are allowed our point of view without fear of being killed for it. That's nice.
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