Alligators: Het blijven gevaarlijke beesten!

[Michael66]

Jogger fights gator, pulls his puppy from its jaws

Published May 30, 2006

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CORAL SPRINGS - A morning walk Monday turned into a dangerous encounter with an alligator for a dog owner.
Michael Rubin took Jasmine, a 6-month-old golden retriever, and his border collie named Frisbee for a run near a construction site. The puppy ran ahead to the edge of a pond.

Rubin heard the dog cry. He went to check on her and saw the puppy's head inside an alligator's mouth. Rubin jumped in the water and started beating the gator with his fist.

The reptile refused to let go and started rolling in the water with the dog still in its mouth. Rubin estimated the gator was about 7 feet long.

"I thought she was dead," Rubin said. "But at that point I wasn't going to let him have my dog."

He eventually pried Jasmine loose and rushed her to an animal hospital, where she was treated for cuts and puncture wounds. The puppy is in good condition, Rubin said.

Toch lef als je het tegen een alligator van ruim 2 meter durft op te nemen. Best wel dom ook ....

[Daan]

Als je hond aangevallen wordt, denk je denk ik niet meer helder na. Geldt hetzelfde voor alsof het je eigen kind is. Ik denk dat ik ook misschien iets doms had gedaan als het mijn hond was.

Ik ben in ieder geval blij dat t beestje nog leeft.

[MyFlorida]

Gisteren gelezen in de Tampa Tribune:

WEEKI WACHEE - This community's famous mermaids got an unwelcome swimming partner when an alligator found its way Saturday into Buccaneer Bay. The mermaid show was delayed - and the underwater viewing room screened by curtains - while professional trapper Darrell Plank of Brooksville subdued the wayward reptile. Plank roped the alligator and pulled it onto a floating dock in the middle of the spring as hundreds of anxious swimmers watched from the bank. Plank estimated the alligator at 9 feet long. "I've never seen anything like it," Plank said Sunday. "It could have been a threatening situation."

[Michael66]

HOW TO WIN A FIGHT WITH AN ALLIGATOR

1. - First of all, scuffling with a gator is an absolute last resort. If one crosses your path, don't pull a Steve Irwin and wrestle it to the ground. Just go inside and call the Nuisance Alligator Hotline at 1-866-FWC-GATOR. It operates seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

2 - If you do manage to get caught in a gator's grip, fight for your life. " Alligators will prey on anything that they're larger than that they think they can easily overpower," said Blair Hayman, biologist and assistant coordinator of Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program. So kick and punch like crazy, or use a weapon if you have one. Go for the eyes and nose.

3 - Make lots of noise so the gator will think you're too much trouble to eat.

4 - "Prying its jaws open probably wouldn't be practical," Hayman said.

5 - The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht actually includes an entry titled "How to Wrestle an Alligator." It says covering the alligator's eyes should make it more sedate.

6 - Also from the handbook: To force the gator's head and jaws down, try to get it on its back and put pressure on its neck.

7 - It goes without saying, but seek immediate medical attention, even for a small cut. An alligator's mouth is a pretty unpleasant cesspool.

Weer twee leuke berichten over Alligators in de St. Petersburg Times:

Als eerste een gator aangetroffen op een basketbalveldje in Brooksville:

The gator who showed up for P.E. class
The reptile turns up on a school basketball court. It gets a wrestling lesson.

Trapper Roger Trusty moves the 8-foot alligator into the back of his truck after trapping it.

BROOKSVILLE - Kristen Williams was taking roll for her gym class Thursday when she looked out the window and noticed a visitor nearby: an 8-foot, 2-inch alligator. The reptile was sunning itself on a basketball court just outside the gym at Parrott Middle School. It wasn't moving at first, but then Williams saw it start to slither. She called for help.
"This is not a little gator," she said. "This is a big gator." The school went into lockdown. Custodians, teachers and the principal all came out to the basketball courts, which back up to a small pond at the edge of acres of woods. The courts are painted green, so at first the animal blended in.

At 9:45 a.m., Deputy Kenneth Keeney, the school resource officer, called the Sheriff's Office. Trapper Roger A. Trusty drove to the scene. He and Keeney wrestled with the gator as it rolled. Eventually they bound the gator's teeth with tape and tied up his limbs.

Witnesses said the alligator was making a croaking sound. "I've been doing it 12 years," Trusty said, standing by the gator in the back of the truck. "I like the one-on-one."

An hour after the gator was first spotted, the school was operating as normal.The marching band came out for some more practice before its first football game.

Principal Marvin Gordon said he wasn't scared. "My only fear is snakes, not gators," he said.
Custodian Anthony Hill said he had held shut the gate to the basketball courts in case the gator tried to make a break in his direction."If he comes," Hill said, "we'll have lunch together."

By that time, the gator was safely removed - and on its way to be destroyed.

En nog eentje in St. Petersburg. Houd je hond aan de lijn (en je kids ook)!!

Gator snatches, kills terrier
The dog's owner says the Airedale gave its life protecting the man's family.

A captured alligator lies tied and taped Wednesday near the St. Petersburg pond after a trapper dragged it to ashore.

ST. PETERSBURG - Fernando Gonzales heard his two prized Airedale terriers barking and splashing a little too loudly. He looked over and saw a nightmare: The almost 10-foot alligator that lived in Viking Lake at the edge of Gonzales' back yard had his beloved dog Butch Cassidy clenched firmly in its jaws. His other dog, Sundance, was still in the water, too. Unable to watch the terrible scene unfold Wednesday, Gonzales grabbed a plastic pipe, jumped in the water and began swinging wildly at the alligator, hitting it in the head. That got the predator's attention. "He started facing right toward me," said Gonzales, 39.

That's when he fled the lake and called for help. But he knew Butch Cassidy, who was 5 months old and weighed about 45 pounds, was already dead. "It's a tragedy," Gonzales said. "We're all still upset. ... My younger sons still keep asking for him to come back."

An alligator hunter who works for the state eventually arrived Wednesday and captured the 9-foot-9 alligator Gonzales said was a familiar face in the Meadowlawn neighborhood. Gonzales considered Butch a member of the family. He got the two Airedale terriers about five months ago because he grew up with dogs and wanted his sons, ages 3 and 4, to have the same experience. He figured Butch Cassidy and Sundance would watch over the boys when they played outside. Gonzales said he usually supervises the dogs when he lets them outside to stretch their legs. He knew about the alligator, but hadn't seen it in a couple of months.

On Wednesday afternoon, Sundance wandered out of the back yard and into the water first, Gonzales said. Butch Cassidy followed. The alligator appeared and began heading for Sundance, but switched its attention to Butch. By the time Gonzales got into the lake, the alligator had the Airedale in its mouth. Gonzales, a restaurant owner who lives in the 1300 block of 73rd Ave. N, said he doesn't feel Butch Cassidy died in vain. He points out that Butch kept the alligator from killing Sundance. And the neighborhood is now better off without the large alligator skulking around.

"Butch gave his life to get the gator out of the lake and make it safer for my kids," Gonzales said. "In an odd way, it kind of justifies him passing on. I got him to protect my family, and that's what he did."

<<kick!!>>

In de Tampa-area weer eens een leuk bericht van een croc in de keuken

Around 10:30 p.m. Monday, Sandra Frosti heard an intruder bumping around in her kitchen.
Turns out, the noise was made by an 8-foot, 8-inch alligator that had crawled into the 69-year-old's kitchen in Eastlake Woodlands.
The female alligator apparently pushed through a screened panel on the back porch, shouldered its way past a potted ficus tree, then got inside the house through an open rear sliding glass door. Once inside, it crawled through the living room, down the hall and into the kitchen.
When Frosti looked into the kitchen, she saw the beast's head. She called 911 and left the house. Click here for audio of the 911 call.
"What's going on?" asked a dispatcher.
"There's an alligator in my kitchen!" Frosti said.
"How long do you think the alligator is ma'am?"
"It's huge!" Frosti said. "... I only saw the first half of it, and that had to be at least 3 feet. ... Because it was behind the freezer, and I just disappeared."
"Are you sure it couldn't be like, a, uh, iguana or a really large..."
"Oh, no, no, no, no!" Frosti said.
"All right," the dispatcher told her, "we'll get deputies out that way."
Pinellas deputies called a trapper who removed it about 1:30 a.m. During the capture, the gator was slightly injured when a plate was knocked to the ground and cut the reptile. No other injuries were reported.
"The house was a mess," Frosti said. "It did a good amount of damage in the kitchen."
This morning, there was still dirt and blood on the kitchen floor, blood spattered on the wall and a claw mark on the hallway wall.
Frosti said she didn't know when the gator got in or where it might have wandered before she noticed it.
"It might have been in the bedroom for all I know," she said.
The gator "looked awfully well-fed," she said, adding that authorities told her they thought it was "wanted to check out the cat."
This morning, Frosti said she had no hard feelings and even worried that the alligator would be destroyed because of her size. Mostly, she found the whole thing amusing.
"I can't wait to tell my grandkids," she said, "because they probably won't believe me."

[danone]

Hallo,
Weet iemand mischien een goede plek om een krokodil te aaien :lol:
please answer this dudes

[remcozoon]

Kwam wel een Aligatorfarm tegen waar je ze een kusje kon geven op de snuit.


Waarom zou je ze willen aaien? ik denk dat je nergens tamme krokkedillen vindt.

[corrus]

Kwam wel een Aligatorfarm tegen waar je ze een kusje kon geven op de snuit.


Waarom zou je ze willen aaien? ik denk dat je nergens tamme krokkedillen vindt.

Er bestaan geen tamme gators... ze hebben hersens ten grote van een doperwt... het blijven altijd wilde reptielen...

Hier en daar kun je ze wel aaien... bijv. in Gator Land... bij een soort kraampje, waar ze ook een foto nemen... deze hebben een tape rond hun bek...

[remcozoon]

[.. deze hebben een tape rond hun bek...[/quote]

eigelijk best wel zielig...

[Stephanie]

Op de alligatorfarm waar wij geweest zijn (www.everglades.com) gaven ze na de alligatorshow ook een klein alligatortje door aan de mensen uit het publiek, met tape rond zijn bek.
Ik vond dat zoooo zielig, dus ik wou daar echt niet aan meedoen !!
En toen was een hele bende amerikanen met ons aan het lachen omdat ze dachten dat we bang waren om de alligator vast te nemen :?

[corrus]

Ach... da's ieder z'n opvatting... uiteraard...

Ik vind het niet zielig... het zijn reptielen... met het stukje tape beschadigen ze het beest niet... maar voorkomt wél dat je zélf niet beschadigd word...