Know What's On YOUR Porch

It is a beautiful day here in central Florida. 88 degrees and breezy. It's the perfect day to go to Taylor Park and have a BBQ dinner. When we first moved to this area, this was the very first place I had ever seen a live alligator. I had heard several incidences about them on the news ending up in your back yard, and imagined that this is how life in Florida would be! I still have not seen a real alligator in the wild anywhere else!

I did a little research about them and I was intrigued to find out that baby gators actually get out of their eggs when they hatch with what is called an "egg tooth". How interesting! They can live to be 50 years old out in the wild, and much longer in captivity. The average length is about 13 feet, and they actually weigh about 800 pounds. Gators have been on this earth for two hundred million years and are considered as a truly living fossil from the reptile ages.

There are actually over 1,000,000 gators in the state of FL alone! They are also widely populated in Louisiana as well. They are very protective of their territory, both male and female, and consume food that cannot be eaten in one bite. They do what is known as the "death roll" in which they roll and tear chunks off of their victims. I always heard that if a gator comes after you, you should run in a zig zag type pattern that will make it harder for them to catch you!

This week, a woman in Tampa had an alligator show up on her back porch. I'm telling you, no matter where you live, whether it be an alligator, fox, raccoon, bear, or home invader on your porch, the best thing to have is a home surveillance system to see just what is lurking about. A woman just last week was told there was a wild boar in her yard locally as well. She went outside and it attacked her from behind the shed!

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Yours In Safety,

Regina Jacques