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  • montanajoe
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    Snake with legs.  No likey.  
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  • He Dog
    Well yeah, but they don't have to eat all that often.  Fun pets.  Altogether I have kept 18 of the 24 species currently recognized.  Alligators are by far the most fun.  And least likely to take your face off.  Dwarf caiman are pretty cool too.
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  • montanajoe
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    He Dog said:
    Well yeah, but they don't have to eat all that often.  Fun pets.  Altogether I have kept 18 of the 24 species currently recognized.  Alligators are by far the most fun.  And least likely to take your face off.  Dwarf caiman are pretty cool too.

    You are amazing my friend.   I liked them at the Zoo (St. Louis) when I was a kid, but that's the only way I want to see one.
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  • Brookwood
    I seem to remember seeing baby alligators for sale as pets way back when. Along with young painted turtles and Hermit Crabs.  Stories of alligators living in the sewers of New York stemmed from folks releasing their pets when they became too big to manage.  The stores all quit selling turtles when Salmonella outbreaks were blamed on them.    
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  • Smitty500mag
    We used to drive to Florida back in the 50s and 60s and there were signs all along the roads advertising baby alligators for sale. They also had a lot of roadside stands that sold all you can drink orange juice for 10 cents a cup.

    We stopped at one of those all you can drink orange juice stands in the summer of 1958 and my aunt ordered a cup of orange juice and paid the 10 cents. After she finished drinking it she went back to get another cup and the guy said that'll be 10 cents. My aunt said your sign says all you can drink for 10 cents. He said that's right, all you can drink from that one cup. Pissed her off big time! My aunt could make a sailor blush with her vocabulary and she let him have it. He pulled that old trick on the wrong girl 'cause she was hell on wheels when she was young and the guy couldn't wait for her to leave. He didn't have any customers by the time she left. We laughed about that for many years to come at family get togethers. :D

    That was the same summer she was fishing off of a narrow bridge near Clearwater, FL. She was bent over resting her elbows on the bridge handrail when a car came by and someone reached out of the window smacked her on the rear as they drove by. Good thing she didn't have her gun on her or she would have shoot them I believe, she was hopping mad! We found out later that it left a bruise in the perfect shape of a hand on her rear end. She was able to laugh about that too later on but not real soon.  :D
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  • SCOUT5
    A few years ago there was a picture like that floating around that was taken in Texas.   It was a gator in one of the lakes down there.
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  • He Dog
    montanajoe said:
    He Dog said:
    Well yeah, but they don't have to eat all that often.  Fun pets.  Altogether I have kept 18 of the 24 species currently recognized.  Alligators are by far the most fun.  And least likely to take your face off.  Dwarf caiman are pretty cool too.

    You are amazing my friend.   I liked them at the Zoo (St. Louis) when I was a kid, but that's the only way I want to see one.

    St. Louis Zoo was where I started working with crocodilians back in '72.  Sorry I missed you Joe. :'(:)  Back then we had a pile of crocs of many species, many of which were not even on exhibit, for lack of exhibit space.  It was never quite clear why we had them, but it was great experience working with many species.  The Nile Crocs were truly scary.  You walked into the gator yard and they were all, "Hi, ya got something for me to eat?"  The Niles were more like, "You are something to eat."  
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  • He Dog
    There was a gator Alligator mcgrew, that reached 40 feet long.  Fossils indicate a grown man could nap in their mouths comfortably enough.  For a little while.
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  • montanajoe
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    He Dog said:
    montanajoe said:
    He Dog said:
    Well yeah, but they don't have to eat all that often.  Fun pets.  Altogether I have kept 18 of the 24 species currently recognized.  Alligators are by far the most fun.  And least likely to take your face off.  Dwarf caiman are pretty cool too.

    You are amazing my friend.   I liked them at the Zoo (St. Louis) when I was a kid, but that's the only way I want to see one.

    St. Louis Zoo was where I started working with crocodilians back in '72.  Sorry I missed you Joe. :'(:)  Back then we had a pile of crocs of many species, many of which were not even on exhibit, for lack of exhibit space.  It was never quite clear why we had them, but it was great experience working with many species.  The Nile Crocs were truly scary.  You walked into the gator yard and they were all, "Hi, ya got something for me to eat?"  The Niles were more like, "You are something to eat."  
    Yep,I remembered you worked at the St.Louis Zoo.  In '72 I was 14 but still visiting the Zoo, it was a great one.  
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  • Ditch-Runner
       at least 40 years ago I worked with another young fellow he had a alligator he brought back from  Florida ( not sure if bought or captured  it )  he called it wally gator had had it for some time when I met him , he kept in in the bath tub . he did get bit a few times but nothing bad . not sure what become of him  or his pet he always said he was going to take to a local lake and let it go as it was out growing his bathtub . 
     side note 
     (I  worked with him and his dad several years on  different construction sites  ,  a back hoe  bucket crushed his dads head about a year before I quit construction ) 
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  • bullshot
    Big gator
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  • danielgage
    wow
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