Bail me out of jail?**UPDATE**

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

As most of you already know we have to watch out for the gators here.  We've had a close call or two but nothing that mother nature didn't create.  NO the community will NOT let me put up a fence.  As far as I know, one has never come up into the yard from the lake behind us.  We see them swim past always going inside the lanai.  However, for the past 3 weeks we have been living in terror!  There is a smallish gator - I'm guessing 5 or 6 feet, that I believe someone has fed.  This makes them very dangerous as they now have no fear of humans.  I believe that someone has fed this gator because if I go out into the back yard with the boys in the morning or at dusk this guy (cue the Jaws music) will make a bee line straight across the lake right to us.  I've called security and they came once but no gator, (they can swim under the road through tubes from lake to lake), called them again when he came back but no one came out.  Called them again and nothing.  Tonight he came within a foot of the shore.  I'm trying to gather up 2 puppies with the zoomies and get them inside.  I'm shaking, I'm scared and I'm sick of living in FEAR.  I called security and told them that the next time I see it - I'm going to shoot it.  Yes - I do have a gun and am a pretty good shot.  They are now promising that the trapper will be here tomorrow but I swear - if I see it I'm going to shoot it and I will go to jail as it is illegal.  I no longer care - I've had it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If I text you all from the back of the cruiser - will ya bail me out?

********************************************Security called just now and said that the trapper would be here by noon.  I don't care if he has to spend the night - he isn't leaving without that gator.  I've also called the shooting range and am taking a gun class on 10/27 for women.  I'm going to get my skills back up to snuff just incase I have to snuff a gator - lmao!  I'll let ya know if they catch him!!!! 

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Hope "Trapper John" is successful!

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Could you really not shoot the gater if it is in self-defense?

 

Also, I agree with Jane (Irish bros) - call your attorney about the fence.  My DH is an attorney and I ran this buy him and he thinks you could possibly have a case with the association..............and could get them to make some changes to the rules given a danger is posed.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Oh my Gator, look at this picture, Jane.   Timbrow's Mom had a human baby and isn't on much anymore  :(  Anyway, I thought of  you as this picture is on the front page of the slide show.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

LOL- Joanne, this is perfect! I forgot we had a doodle who was actually named after a Gator!

(Timbow is named for Tim Tebow, the QB who took the Gators to their first championship in more than 10 years and won the Heisman, for those who aren't football fans.)

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Okay, one more gator picture!   Look at Blake.   I really think these pictures are omens or something

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

And above that little gator applique, it says "Chomp, Chomp"!

I sure hope that isn't an omen!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

How do you know what it says?  Did you get that for him?   :)   It is really really cute.  It may even make Jane love an alligator--at least this just once

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

There's another photo of him wearing it in Adina's facebook album, where you can see the words, lol.

[Leslie and Halas]

I'm glad they caught him.  So you're not even allowed to shoot them if you or the dogs are in immediate danger?

 

And why is there a special shooting class for women?  Do we learn to shoot differently from men?

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Leslie, yes.  Well kind of.  In my shooting class we had to try to shoot at the target's privates ( a paper target that was a picture of a man)

In my class were two woman and 6 men.  The woman, we were told, actually make this target much better than the males.   Sympathy pain was the assumed reason the men did not score as high on this exercise.