Came across this creation on Sunday in Burnside, LA
Robert often when I am out of state, people ask where are you from and I say "Louisiana". Their response is usually "do you ever see any alligators and where".
Because my property backs up to a bayou I answer "all the time and in my back yard".
They sun themselves on the bank and scurry when I cut the grass.
We have a "few" in South Georgia also. My father had a "pet" gator for several years. My uncle caught him (her?) right after it hatched and my father kept it in a bucket for two years while he built his pond. The gator would come when called, his name was "Allie" and would crawl up on the bank to be fed. When he reached about 8 feet my mother saw him catch a rabbit that had gotten in the pond. That did it, he had to get rid of it. He called the State Dept. of Natural Resources and they said they came to get him. They relocated him a little further south to where a fellow wanted to control the snakes in his pond.
Andy
My first journey to Louisiana involved picking up a rental car at the airport in New Orleans and driving to Baton Rouge. I saw many alligators along the roadway in places. Right then and there I decided that if I had a flat tire I was going to keep driving. No hopping out to put on the spare with so many carnivores nearby.
Biggest gator I've ever seen was the stuffed one in the Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors' display case in the old Dept. of Natural Resources in downtown Baton Rouge. I think it was between 18 and 21 feet long. Wonder whatever happened to it?
