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re: Lab Lost to Alligator
Posted on 1/8/19 at 1:35 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Posted on 1/8/19 at 1:35 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:
Getting in the water after an alligator of any size is a mistake. People are helpless in the water.
Na. Land on them and hang on to their back and they are near dead from exhaustion in under a minute.
Younger dumber versions of my friends and I used to catch them like that.
Looking back... We were phenomenally stupid
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Posted on 1/8/19 at 2:12 pm to windshieldman
About 17 years ago, I decided to go fishing at Lacassine wildlife refuge. I wanted to fish the non motorized pool. So I loaded up the bateau (10 ft) and headed out there. I arrived about a 1/2 hour before daylight. I decided I was gonna launch the boat in the water and wait for daybreak to get some good top water action. I grabbed my headlight and shined it in the water at this random location that I chose. There must have been at least 50 gators right there. They were huge I bet most of them were over 10 feet. I decided to wait til sunrise being that I was alone. Once the sun came up they started swimming away. I had an errie feeling all day because I never saw another one but I know dam well they were watching! Prehistoric animal with a brain the size of pea and only knows how to hunt and breed is a recipe for disaster. Just saying.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 2:35 pm to PocketLab
Bruh this is rough to read. I can't relate to the incident, but I can relate to the love one feels to their dog. It's one of my biggest fears, that and her doing something stupid and running out in front of a vehicle. I don't have kids yet, so this is my baby. It's unreal how they will unconditionally love you, and I hope my ole girl lives forever. Got teary eyed reading this, and projecting myself with my dog into this situation. My girl was laying at my feet, I needed to show some love so I called her up on the couch with me. She doesn't respect personal space, so after 10 seconds of being all up in my shite the moment was over and she's back on the floor.
Just curious if you've gotten another dog? Not trying to sell you one, I just know from experience it's worth getting another. It's tough to lose a dog, but I don't want to spend a day without one in the house. There's too much positivity that comes from owning one.
Just curious if you've gotten another dog? Not trying to sell you one, I just know from experience it's worth getting another. It's tough to lose a dog, but I don't want to spend a day without one in the house. There's too much positivity that comes from owning one.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 3:21 pm to X123F45
“Were”?!
Posted on 1/8/19 at 3:22 pm to PocketLab
Sorry to hear that. I’d make it my life’s mission to kill that gator.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 3:30 pm to tigerinthebueche
quote:
“Were”?!
I'd probably still do it I just wouldn't do it for fun
Posted on 1/8/19 at 3:33 pm to PocketLab
Man im sorry to hear about this... Me and my lab are best freinds and i couldnt imagine, i kick my wife out of bed to let him sleep in it sometimes... He is one of those dogs you just know you will never have another one like him.... Prayers sent to you buddy 
Posted on 1/8/19 at 4:51 pm to PocketLab
i just teared up reading that
Posted on 1/8/19 at 5:25 pm to PocketLab
I could’ve done without reading this
Sorry about your dog man. That’s bruta
Sorry about your dog man. That’s bruta
Posted on 1/8/19 at 6:03 pm to PocketLab
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I’m in Dularge also and the amount of alligators that associate people with food is ridiculous. Not just 4 footers anymore either.
Heard a story about a little girl getting bitten by one when she slid off the dock at her camp on Bayou DeCade a couple of years ago. We had two in the boat shed at our camp in BD Marina. They were dining while we cleaned the fish. Hope they enjoyed their last meal. When they’re so numerous and “tame” that they’ll swim into the slip and eAt scraps or chase your popping cork to the side of your boat, it’s time to thin the herd.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 8:23 pm to PocketLab
Horrible that you had to go through that. Dogs are family.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 9:23 pm to tigerinthebueche
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it’s time to thin the herd.
I agree. Saw more gators than ducks last weekend. Everyone around us has started leaving dogs at home. Used to not use them first split, now it’s not all. Just too many, you shine your light across pond and it looks like a string of lights across it.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 9:46 pm to PocketLab
Jesus Christ
Posted on 1/9/19 at 10:04 am to PocketLab
Man what a story.
It made me realize that I have to be prepared to jump into the water to fight an alligator, great white shark, or anything else if it grabs one of my kids. Holy shite that’s sobering.
It made me realize that I have to be prepared to jump into the water to fight an alligator, great white shark, or anything else if it grabs one of my kids. Holy shite that’s sobering.
Posted on 1/9/19 at 10:33 am to uway
frick a shark.
Although I did see some kids in Creole drag a 10-12 footer onto the beach a few months back.
Not a one was over 15 and 140lbs
More of a man than I'll ever be.
Although I did see some kids in Creole drag a 10-12 footer onto the beach a few months back.
Not a one was over 15 and 140lbs
More of a man than I'll ever be.
Posted on 1/9/19 at 3:57 pm to tigerinthebueche
This was the same area, within 100 yards, a week or two after my incident.
Posted on 1/9/19 at 9:46 pm to Capt ST
Every single gator farmer I know wants the return percentage lowered from 12% to 6%. This would put the balance closer to what the natural habitat could support.
Only 3% of wild born gators make it to sexual maturity, roughly 6’. Where as almost all of farm raised released gators make it to sexual maturity since they are released back into the wild at 4-5’ in length. They are not close to being sexually mature, but are mostly past a stage where natural predation keeps their numbers in check.
For instance, Vermilion Coorporation has roughly 100,000 eggs picked every year off of its land holdings. Naturally 3,000 would make it to 6’ or larger. But due to WLF Regulations and additional 9000 make it to maturity due to released farm raised gators.
This has been practiced since the 80’s, the regulations on returns needs to be reduced to closer to the natural number of 3%.
This occurs in every marsh from Sabine Pass to at least Lake DeCade. I know that for a fact since I’ve picked eggs on Grey Estate in the West to Apache Corpes in the east.
Only 3% of wild born gators make it to sexual maturity, roughly 6’. Where as almost all of farm raised released gators make it to sexual maturity since they are released back into the wild at 4-5’ in length. They are not close to being sexually mature, but are mostly past a stage where natural predation keeps their numbers in check.
For instance, Vermilion Coorporation has roughly 100,000 eggs picked every year off of its land holdings. Naturally 3,000 would make it to 6’ or larger. But due to WLF Regulations and additional 9000 make it to maturity due to released farm raised gators.
This has been practiced since the 80’s, the regulations on returns needs to be reduced to closer to the natural number of 3%.
This occurs in every marsh from Sabine Pass to at least Lake DeCade. I know that for a fact since I’ve picked eggs on Grey Estate in the West to Apache Corpes in the east.
This post was edited on 1/9/19 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 1/9/19 at 11:54 pm to chew4219
Show me a fool who says he will wrestle a gator 5’+ without any hesitation or advantage and I’ll show you a lying sack of shite. That crocodile Dundee shite is best left for the movies. Yea, you may have lucked up once or heard a story about some Cajun badass.... but it was nothing more than a lucky dumbass! A slight miscalculation, a fraction of a second, your DONE!!!
You are on his terms when you enter the water. The first thing you will do once he unleashes his bone crushing, flesh tearing bite... is scream in agony while exhaling every bit of air in your lungs as he drags you down to the bottom and anchors himself down in a rootbed until you struggle yourself out of air and life. Once he feels the last bit of fight in you go. Now he sets the table. He’s gonna take your corpse to one of his many hollowed out holes under the bank while pounding you tight into the hole he has chosen, one - to make sure you are secure, two- to help tenderize you a bite. After he has you nice and tucked away in his “fridge” so to speak, he will be back time to time to check on your ripeness and may bring you company, some other victim to stuff beside you if the is room. Being winter time, you might be lucky.... he might decide to Hibernate and fast and eat you once he starts to get frisky in the spring thaw. By that time though, you will probably be a turd from some other alligator who stumbled upon your guys honeypot while he was catching a nap.
Hey... you do you though. You may like your odds. Worms gotta eat too!
Amos Moses my arse!
You are on his terms when you enter the water. The first thing you will do once he unleashes his bone crushing, flesh tearing bite... is scream in agony while exhaling every bit of air in your lungs as he drags you down to the bottom and anchors himself down in a rootbed until you struggle yourself out of air and life. Once he feels the last bit of fight in you go. Now he sets the table. He’s gonna take your corpse to one of his many hollowed out holes under the bank while pounding you tight into the hole he has chosen, one - to make sure you are secure, two- to help tenderize you a bite. After he has you nice and tucked away in his “fridge” so to speak, he will be back time to time to check on your ripeness and may bring you company, some other victim to stuff beside you if the is room. Being winter time, you might be lucky.... he might decide to Hibernate and fast and eat you once he starts to get frisky in the spring thaw. By that time though, you will probably be a turd from some other alligator who stumbled upon your guys honeypot while he was catching a nap.
Hey... you do you though. You may like your odds. Worms gotta eat too!
Amos Moses my arse!
This post was edited on 1/9/19 at 11:58 pm
Posted on 1/10/19 at 10:22 am to The Great McGinty
Thanks Capt. Obvious for the long-arse unnecessary post. Not only was it completely irrelevant to this thread, but it showed how you completely misinterpret hyperbole and context. 
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