[wtd]

No reason to think Disney stocked any of their canals, lagoons, lakes or puddles with live alligators.

We own Disney property and spend some time there every couple of years. In the last two to three decades it is rare to see a fly or bee in the resort areas - certainly never any live gators. Although we have witnessed gators near the edge of highway leading to parks - near canals which drain the swamp and are interconnected.

Gators are migratory animals and freely move from familiar terrain into populated areas...and don't usually

• ring the doorbell to announce their arrival (I kid you not).

  Gators can climb trees (but don't routinely) too. Creepy creatures, they. Disney will likely re-visit their animal control protocol - albeit too late for this family.

• A couple of weeks ago, an enormous alligator was videotaped strolling across a golf course in broad daylight.

[masadaman]

I spent the first 22 years of my life in old Miami just off what is now Calle Ocho and was then the Tamiami Trail, ‘the trail.’ Alligators are either hungry or lazy. When they are hungry, they can move quickly and can be found 300 meters or more from water, three football fields. At the famous Serpentarium where the local Seminole boys put on a ‘wrestling a gator’ show, my job at the local market included delivering dozens of frozen chickens so that Bill Haas, the owner and legendary cobra venom collector, could stuff a gator with 3 or 4 chickens before the show. Soon the gators became lazy and sleepy and you too could wrestle a gator.

[cll]

I’m never moving to Florida...

[Ann Archy]

I am always a little apprehensive when I go out my front door since we live on a lake....I always look for an alligator nearby!!