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In a television interview, the man said that he carries a four inch knife.

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Can you copy the text to a post, or at least summarize the story, since there's no way I (& perhaps others) can read it?

Thanks.

David

Sorry about that link David. I'll see if I can locate the article from a "real" news source.

Alligator attack article

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040827/LOCAL/208270341/1078

This time the source is from the Gainsville Sun newspaper. I hope this will work.

The article said that this guy will from now on keep his dog on a leash and away from the water. This is what he should have done in the first place when he knew that he was on the alligator´s turf. In addition he didn´t have the skill to kill the animal with his knife. Thus he created a hazard for others who have to deal with the animal now and presumeably some pain for the animal. So the alligator has to die because of someone´s lack of common sense (don´t ge me started on the people who still let their children play in the water there). I definitely think that this is no reason to carry a knife. Using common sense would be far better.
I think that carrying a knife is sensible though.

A "James Bond" style mink glove might have been more humane.

I understand rubbing an alligators tummy tends to make them mellow out.

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Well, never tried with gators (not too many in the Seine river !), but it sure works with my cat ! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well damn come to think of it mink glove would work on just about anything...

Frenchy:

You have a mink glove for a cat?

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I'm not desperate enough YET to try mink gloves on anything, but it works on my best friends wife.

























Bountyhunter

(P.S. No, N,o, No, I know what you are thinking, that statement is according to what my friend says.)

At least the gators will like it,

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/newsletter/news143e.htm

And no this is not the only time this has happened, gators like dogs or dislike the barking. Not sure which.

i saw the story on tv as well the guy didnt look too badly hurt.

my cousin used to live in fla and im told its common for little dogs to just get snatched like that.

while i agree it is lack of common sense on the guys part, but everyone should still carry a knife, not carrying one is more foolish.

Thanks!

I don't go anywhere without a knife. When I visit Florida, my Emerson Raven or Microtech SOCOM is in my pocket or clipped to my waistband--everywhere, including the beach & ocean!

David

The mink glove might have been more humane.
In my country it´s just plain rude to invite someone to have a snack and then go after him with a knife if he doesn´t turn down the offer. Allowing the dog to play in the water is like offering a snack to the gator.

I fully agree with your opinion about carrying a knife. The story just reminded me of something Mark McYoung called getting "rattlesnake cornered". He defined it as being too confident and ignoring warning signs combined with a certain eagerness to use skills and equippment. That way one stumbles into trouble that could have been avoided. IMHO it´s not good to use a story like that as an example for reasons to carry a knife.

Bounty, sorry, but you will have to explain things to me :
- I know what a mink is
- and I know its fur is quite expensive

Is there a special meaning to the "mink glove" or are you wondering if I really use an expensive mink glove for my cat ?
You know, for a cat used to foie gras, lobsters and caviar ...... and a mink glove is wonderful to remove shedded hairs, so they won't get on its mohair blanket...

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So much for my refuting the likelyhood of "lions and tigers and bears, oh my" attacks and Bountyhunter's latest recommendation for a laser sighted Beretta .25 ACP with folding bayonet. I have a new acquaintance, an ethnic italian American who (GROAN) discovered he, along with 99.98% of americans has CHER-O-KEE ancestry. This guy is 'bonding' with his spiritguide, said mystical entity a rather mangy looking coyote. Now I've had lots of fun encounters with 'yotes and bear none any ill will, except the one who scent marked me in my sleeping bag one night. But my friend is hand feeding and trying to pet MR Canis Latrans . I predict the Castaneda books will be in the trash soon. Wild animals are, well, wild. It was certainly a fun link to remind us all that nature in all her glory, splendor and indifferent readiness to refute humanitie's hubris is just beyond the greenway. A golfer just got bit out here. He went into the rough, or should I say chapparel in search of his ball and got bit by a buzzworm right next to the warning sign that said "DANGER! Rattlesnake Habitat."

Frenchy:

The mink glove issue came from an old James Bond movie, no hidden meaning intended.

I have heard you cat people really "put on the dog" (An old saying that means doing something on a grand scale.) so I shouldn't be suprised at the expense you are willing to go to in order for your cat to feel pampered.

Last dog I had was a german shepard trained in Serbian who cost me quite a bit of money in paying off people he bit. The period of time that I had him, we had a lot of break-ins of homes in our area. They hit a house across the street with 2 labrador retrievers that would probably have hauled the stuff to the burgalars house if he had loaded them up with saddle bags.

No one came near our house.

The dog slept outside winter and summer in a raised floor insulated house that I built which had an interior wall so that he was not directly in front of the entrance, a swinging plexiglas door for keeping out drafts, and a tilting roof so that he had ventilation with the door removed, and the interior wall removed in the summer. He rarely came into the house unless I was gone for the night, in which case he was in the family room to watch over my parents.

I was raised and I believe that working animals belong outside the house unless they are companions or help mates (Seeing eye dogs, etc.).

I'll probably get a lot of flak over my views of how to keep pets, but I would never own a warm weather pet in Wisconsin even if I were to keep it in a heated environment. It goes against nature and only feeds the human ego (Boy!, am I looking for flak or what?).

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