[Rhodes22-list] Hartwell Alligator

[Rick Lange]

Ed,
What's this about an alligator eating cats?  I always thought
since cats avoid water and don't fight other species for territory, they
are relatively safe.
Dogs, on the other hand, don't have a chance. 
I spent some time earlier this year along the Calousahatchie River and
noticed there wasn't a single dog to be seen or heard.  The locals
explained the alligators crawl ashore and lure any handy dog by
hissing.  While the dog barks and feints at the 'gator's mouth, that big
tail nails the dog every time.
Rick
> 
> Captain
Rummy: 
> 
> I noticed that this year we did not have
reports of him around the 
> lake. So that is where he is hiding?
Does your wife know about the 
> missing 
> cats? 
> 
> Old news report, "His name was George. He was a
huge alligator and he 
> lived – in all places – in Lake
Hartwell. Randy Geddings told me about 
> George. Randy was one of
the DNR agents who was instructed to go do 
> something about Big
George. As Randy put it, “All the books say that 
> alligators
don’t live this far north. But George never read any of those 
>
books – he didn’t know any better, so he just lived in Lake Hartwell

> and 
> grew huge.” The problem was that people
didn’t like seeing a ten or 
> twelve 
> foot long
alligator cruising just offshore from their boat docks on the 
>
Seneca River. And so when enough complaints came in, it was up to the DNR

> to go and dispose of this magnificent animal. “The really sad
thing 
> about it 
> all” said Randy “was that Big
George was probably in the lake because 
> someone had bought him
on a trip to Florida when he was a baby.” Baby 
> alligators are
kind of cute in their own way. It is kind of like having a 
>
miniature dinosaur living in your house. The problem is that alligators

> will never make good pets and they most certainly do not stay
little for 
> long. Once baby George filled up the bathtub, the
folk who brought him 
> back 
> from Florida probably
realized they had trouble on their hands. So they 
> let 
> him loose in Lake Hartwell. " 
> 
> But do not
worry, read this news release by wildlife department: 
>
http://sercc.com/news/Yr2006/april17/april17_gator_pic.html 
> 
> Ed K 
> Greenville, SC, USA 
> 
> 
> 
> R22RumRunner wrote: 
>> 
>> Ed,

>> You are welcome to my run anytime you can break into my
cabin. 
>> 
>> Rummy....look out for the alligator.

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