Alligator in local river!

[Debbieangel]

http://kdka.com/video/?id=28292@kdka.dayport.com



This was in a PA river not a usual thing here!!!!!;)

[Danny]

hey once in a muddy old english canal near me a fisherman found a giant catfish the size of a large gator, if i saw that coming out the water id **** meself:lol:

[MissJacksonCA]

There's just nothing like walking around the mall and seeing something funny in the swamp/pond outside of it... and seeing a gator in that swamp/pond...

I know people in Florida see gators all the time everywhere but I never anticipated it here as well... they're always in the drainage ditches and on the grass around the local apartments and homes and even in the pool here... its crazy! But there's good eating here ...lots of stray cats

[darth los]

Their coming for your cats next DA. Where is fluffy by the way. you better go check on her. j/k That's if kor doesn't get to them first.lol

[Cody]

mad alligators man. good meat. chewy.

[fartpants]

thank god i live in a country where the most dangerous native animal is a little slightly venomous snake ( which we never see )

[MissJacksonCA]

Man Clad in Underwear Wrestles Wild Leopard
By ARON HELLER
AP
JERUSALEM (May 29) - A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.
"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted."

Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half dozen leopards have been spotted recently near Du Mosch's small community of Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, although they rarely threaten humans.

Shapira said it was probably food that lured the big cat. Leopards living near humans are usually too old to hunt in the wild and resort to chasing down domestic dogs and cats for food, he added.


Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room.

Shapira said the leopard was very weak when park rangers arrived at Du Mosch's home after the surprise late-night visit. He said nature officials would likely release it back into the wild.

Du Mosch said he probably would not have been able to control the big cat were it in better health. As a nature guide, he said, he was familiar with animals and did his best to hold down the leopard without harming it. He said he took it all in stride, "but the kids were excited."


....i'm just wondering how big was that mosquito that his daughter was so scared of and what does he mean its 'likely' that the nature officials would release it back to the wild

[Debbieangel]

Their coming for your cats next DA. Where is fluffy by the way. you better go check on her. j/k That's if kor doesn't get to them first.lol

LOL...I am not quite near the river so not to worry about my dogs or the cats that think they own us!
When I heard that last night I was shocked for that gator not to be seen before this is crazy...alot of people swim at the riverbank or they used to, the water is so polluted now I sure wouldn't, besides there is an undertow that can pull you under wouldn't take long to drown.
But, alot of people do fish on the river in small rowboats...can you imagine what that guy was thinking when he saw those eyes coming up out of the water? It would have taken him mere seconds to row ashore. :lol:

[darth los]

Maybe the gator got lost and strayed off the beaten path so to speak. It happens to whales all the time. It seems like every week there's a movement to save a whale that has stayed into shallow/unfamilliar waters. Poor gator, he just wants to go home. :(

[MikePizzoff]

That's funny because there's an aligator in the town next to mine (Haddonfield, NJ) in which nobody can catch.

[capncnut]

Golly Deb, I do hope Ponchie was in his hammock at the time? A little guy like him would be snack sized to an alligator! :eek: