RE: Jensen Beach alligators (was: Collard greens/)

[Guest guest]

Well, there’s a sign at the bridge

entrance to Cedar’s island at the park one door over which says: “Large

Alligator Sighted” or something to that effect. (I haven’t

been back over to look, but Vince told me.) There are probably 15-20

homes that border this lake…ours has vegetation at the end of the lawn

edging the lake…many others the lawn just runs right down to the

lake. If I lived in one of those, I might be more worried, but the

alligator(s) is/are more likely to crawl out on those lawns or the island

(which has open shoreline also) than our lawn. I’m not sure what

the homeowners’ association is planning to do about the alligators.

And I’m not sure what they mean by “large,” although I’m

guessing 4-feet or more. Alligators are really not dangerous as long as

humans haven’t fed them…once they see humans as a source of food,

they don’t much care whether it comes *from*

our hands or *is* our hands…or

whatever else they can get ahold of.

There are alligators in the canal behind

the first house we bought down here, too. The one my mom lives in

now. Cedar and I saw one when we were walking one day…it was about

5-feet long, sunning itself on the bank. Fast, too, as it tossed its head

and disappeared into the water when it saw us walking towards it.

As with the rest of the critters who live

around here, I just wish them well and ask them to keep to their own

habitats.<G>

Sharyn

From: health [mailto:health ] On Behalf Of Suzanne

can't you get rid of the alligators?? like have them

relocated?? before they grow to big?

or get the dog or you?