Hot, hungry alligators are crawling through Florida neighborhoods

[Jilly_in_VA]

Alligators are crawling through Florida neighborhoods, and most are just hot and hungry.

A large alligator was spotted Easter Sunday cruising through Venice before heading back to the neighborhood lake, according to a Facebook post from the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.

"We’re guessing he was about 10 feet in length and boy, did he take his time making it back to the lake he came from," the post said.

Another alligator was spotted two days later in Venice crossing a street.

"WALKERS BEWARE!" a Facebook post from the Venice Police Department said. "He’s currently in the drainage ditch nearby so please use caution when around this area."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/23/alligators-mating-season-florida/7381358001
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Another reason not to live there. Keep your small children and pets indoors.

[Deuxcents]

1. It is their mating season.

It’s known that a male will walk miles to find a mate. Those of us who live here know how to co exist with alligators. Beside staying away from where they are most likely to be..never feed them. You’d be surprised how often this rule is ignored and then when Fido goes missing, they want the alligator trapped n destroyed.

[mitch96]

3. +1. you don't want to mess with horny gators...

One of our previous big boys and a florida man at the golf course.
It seems everything you encounter out your front door in florida wants to kill you. Bugs, gators, plants, cars and of course the politics..
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[lpbk2713]

2. Something else you won't find in the Chamber of Commerce Visitor's Guide

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[kimbutgar]

4. I visited my sister in law years ago who lived briefly in Ft Lauderdale

She had an enclosed patio and and a pool that was not enclosed. I went outside one morning with my coffee and went by the pool and sat down. A few minutes in I spotted a movement out of the corner of my eye and it was an alligator that came out of a canal that ran through her neighborhood back yard. I don’t think I ever moved so fast in my life to get back into that enclosed patio. The rest of the time we were there I never went outside the enclosed patio.

My sister in law hated it there and couldn’t wait to leave Florida.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. My adopted daughter lives there

She's not crazy about FloriDUH at all, but it was where she got clean and sober and where she met her partner of 6 years. It's also where her clean and sober friends are. I think she's a little afraid to move back to Tennessee, where her grandmother and "sister" are but also a lot of the friends she drank and did drugs with. And her partner is a FloriDUH native who had never been farther north than Tennessee until he visited. She's pretty conflicted right now.

[TeamProg]

6. Too bad that Republicans taste so bitter and foul to gators and crocs. n/t