Scared to move

[shelimcallister]

Originally Posted by Lil Sis

excellent advise!! I know in Miami-Dade there are laws and fines relating to feeding gators. I just don't get how people feed any wild animal and then get upset when said animal comes into their yard. That is what I mean by my having some control over my yard.. I will not feed or tempt the gators... at least not knowingly. A couple of years past there were a couple of people killed by gators here.. one was a girl who was sitting in an area with posting of beware there are gators and dangled her feet in the water (I am guessing a bridge ?) and the gator jumped out and got her...the horror was she was on the phone with her mom at the time.
A large dog (a lab) was killed in Key Largo... he was out on the dock behind the house and a croc got him.. and the horror!!! I don't know people had been feeding him or not. So sad

I have a fence.. it is a decorative fence made with bamboo and chicken wire.. I can see the lake. I have thorny plants .. bougainvillea... planted to hide the wire and I think it looks nice. I put the fence about half way down the property, so it is not too close to the water.

When we first moved in the area and Sammy was a puppy he ran into the water... I could see the gator and I almost lost it...I was screaming like a banshee and ran to get him. The gator was far away and didn't even move.. I was so lucky!!!! Fence went up soon after

Your fence sounds nice could you take a picture for me?

[gracielove]

Originally Posted by Lil Sis

excellent advise!! I know in Miami-Dade there are laws and fines relating to feeding gators. I just don't get how people feed any wild animal and then get upset when said animal comes into their yard. That is what I mean by my having some control over my yard.. I will not feed or tempt the gators... at least not knowingly. A couple of years past there were a couple of people killed by gators here.. one was a girl who was sitting in an area with posting of beware there are gators and dangled her feet in the water (I am guessing a bridge ?) and the gator jumped out and got her...the horror was she was on the phone with her mom at the time.
A large dog (a lab) was killed in Key Largo... he was out on the dock behind the house and a croc got him.. and the horror!!! I don't know people had been feeding him or not. So sad

I have a fence.. it is a decorative fence made with bamboo and chicken wire.. I can see the lake. I have thorny plants .. bougainvillea... planted to hide the wire and I think it looks nice. I put the fence about half way down the property, so it is not too close to the water.

When we first moved in the area and Sammy was a puppy he ran into the water... I could see the gator and I almost lost it...I was screaming like a banshee and ran to get him. The gator was far away and didn't even move.. I was so lucky!!!! Fence went up soon after

It does sound like a great idea for a fence. I have to keep Gracie on a leash. We live on the edge of a wooded area that has about every kind of critter known in the north east. Large owls, hawks, foxes, coyotes. Bears and bob cats pass through now and then. We don't go out at dawn or dusk because of the owls. I would never let a pet loose in an area that is not totally secured unless it was on a leash attached to an attentive human. We have harmless animals like deer and rabbits, chipmunks, opossum, raccoons,skunks, too. The trouble with those smaller animals is that they attract the predators. I don't want my small animal being bate for any predator.