I saw this happen,the gator never came back. So feel free to zap it with courage and conviction. If I was drunk and dreamed it happened,well sorry in advance.

3rd Time is a Charm they say.......

3rd Time is a Charm they say.......

I know a fishing guide that also does duck hunting trips in the Delacroix/ Venice LA area. He does not use a dog. He told me of a client that
insisted on bringing his Lab, even after being told there was a good chance that gators were active in the area. The dog did not survive the trip due to the
stupid owner.
Sad

MO

About 45 years ago I was fishing a lake on Barksdale AFB. The lake was full of gators. When I was loading up to go home a woman got out of her car with a lab. She walked to the end of the pier and threw a stick in the water for the lab to retrieve. I told her she shouldn't do that because of the gators. She said that she does it all the time. Her lab was too big for a gator to mess with it. I said OK and resumed getting ready to go home. About 5 minutes later as I was getting in my truck I hear the woman scream. I went running down there and saw a big bloody spot in the water and a 7 or 8 footer had her dog and was spinning. It went down and we never saw it again. She called the SP's down there and they told her gators like dogs and there was nothing they could do. People were always losing dogs on Cross Lake in Shreveport. They'd let them run around in the back yard and gators would come and get lunch. Gators will usually run from a person but they love dogs.

Brings back a memory. In the 70’s my in-laws lived on the west coast of Florida. We’d visit when we could, and on one trip down, there was a huge gator killed in a pond bordering a golf course. He had over 40 dog rabies tags in his digestive system.