roadside Wallygator

From: vince lewonski <vincelewonski@yahoo.com>



--- S&C Rust <srust@fidnet.com> wrote:
> 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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