and so we met the alligator wrestler....

let me back up a little in the story

this is the entrance to the kids new place

5 acres, house and pond

on the other side of this road that runs for about 5 miles is

a big waterway ditch

where alligators are often spotted

when we saw an alligator in their pond

we called the alligator wrestler/trapper folks

they came right out

and gave us some good information about alligators

for one - our pond was too small for one to stay around

so we are standing there next to his truck talking and he is telling me

how he learned from his dad - wrestling gators since he was a kid

a rare skill I agreed

then he says he didn't find one in the pond but

the day was not wasted as he had 2 in the truck

I jumped back 5 feet all at once

and really looked at the truck

who knew that when you did get brave and go closer

they hissed and growled??

he said they catch them live but take them to their factory? 

(is that what you would call it....)

anyway he said then we euthanize (kill) them and

some people don't like that that is why we take them live

they use every part, the skin, the meat....

I saw alligator pasta on the menu the other day...

they get a few permits from the state to take out nuisance gators

(like what isn't a nuisance gator.....) anyway

one or 2 less gators in the neighborhood 

I told him I could live with that.....

AND

other interesting stuff from June 2017

xxoo