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.

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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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.

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.