Re: OT:roadside Wallygator
From: "Title, CDR Lynn A." <titlel@spawar.navy.mil>
Florida must be a REAL different place to ride! I've been riding trail and
event horses for about 20 years now, and can't conceive of many of my horses
staying calm with an alligator's teeth suddenly clamped around a pastern.
Latching onto the tail, maybe (I have a mental image of a long tail swishing
a two-footer babygator *fwap* against a flank. Are gators bright enough to
let go when flung like that?)
Lynn
also watching my irises bake; four days in a row over 90 degrees, and no
rain in sight...
-----Original Message-----
From: S&C Rust [s*@fidnet.com]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 12:37 PM
To: iris-talk@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT:roadside Wallygator
From: "S&C Rust" <srust@fidnet.com>
Mark, last year we almost bought a horse from a lady in central Florida. We
were looking for a well trained gaited trail horse and she said that this
horse was "alligator broke." I asked her what that meant and she said the
horse was unafraid of alligators in the swamps and would cross right over
them without hesitation. At that point, I confess, I wondered about the
mentality of both horse and rider. But, she swore that the adult alligators
never bothered the horseback riders unless they rode too near their "nests"
and that they would actually turn and swim away from the riders. She said
the only alligators causing any excitement at all were the babies one or two
feet long that hadn't yet learned to scatter from the horse's hooves. She
said they would sometimes attatch to the horse's legs or tail for a short
time, but horses quickly got used to that. She said the babies caused no
trouble unless they latched onto the horse's muzzle. I don't know if she is
correct, or has been dumped on her head one too many times! I don't guess
alligators would make a nest in a ditch (would they?) but just in case, be
careful when looking at irises in ditches in Florida!
Cindy Rust, Missouri, Zone 5b... where we have no alligators, but one black
bear that rambled round in my Mom's japanese iris garden for two days,
bending metal pipe birdfeeder rods like toothpicks and untidying her mulch.
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