In the 80’s? Not even remotely farfetched. You people posting dramatic videos of gators in Florida?
Some of you people didn’t grow up in Florida in there 80’s and it shows (to paraphrase a derby meme making the rounds)
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I don’t live in Florida and I am the guilty party (“you people”) who posted the “dramatic” videos of the alligators. I don’t understand why you consider the videos “dramatic”. They’re videos of alligators. One on a trail, another on a golf course, and the third in a neighborhood, all walking slowly, in Florida. 
They are very large alligators. People who don’t live in Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, Louisiana, Australia etc… aren’t used to them.
Its not the alligators or the eating of dogs by them that I was referring to as legend it was the addition of so many other added details like everyone who was anyone was there to see it happen and everytime the story is told the dog is bigger and meaner. You know like all horse show legends gain more legs over time.
I don’t think the details about a specific fatal incidence involving a person or domestic animal from an alligator attack matter to anyone but those people that were, or may be, affected by alligator attacks, or to scientists whose area it is to study.
Many of us don’t live where these beasts pop out of small ponds, to prey on small (or large) animals or humans or livestock etc… so if the details of an alligator attack are embellished or exaggerated, who cares? Dead is dead and et is et.
Of course we all adapt to the dangers of our own environments, but having one of those pop out of water at any time, to me, would be unnerving, to say the least.
True and even if the current rendition uses a current big name and the breed has morphed into a Great Pyrenees it does serve to warn people. Those who’ve heard it probably are more prone to keep their dogs on leashes at least near water in Florida even though leashes seem to be a dirty word at many horse shows I have been to.
Hol’ up. Your gators are friendly chickens compared to our crocodiles. We might not get the Godzilla-esque perambulators like the Floridians, but ours get pretty big and pretty nasty. It’s scarier when you don’t see them, being the supreme ambush predator that they are. They are the “Clever Girl” of the crocodilians.
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It is a private facility though, so they aren’t obligated to recognize any other religions.
Personally it’s not my cup of tea, and the original post probably would have been more correctly stated as being nice for people practicing that particular religion to not have to go off grounds. The rest of you who observe a different faith are SOL if you can’t leave the grounds (which is exactly like every other horse show you go to).
Amen. Gators are mostly are uninspired to go too far out fast on land to chase dinner. For those of us who grew up in South Florida back when it was a lot more everglades, orange trees and cattle than structured subdivisions with lakes had a lot of alligators and not a lot of problems with them. In fact the fourth fence line of my paddock was a canal line across from an orange grove which had… Gators. And no horses, ponies, dogs or cats were harmed in this story. Ducks had a different outcome. I’m not going to lie You could have taken out half the Muscovy ducks in South Florida and nobody would have noticed.
The real problem with gators started when (Big surprise!) population density grew, and you know what stupid people started doing in their subdivisions? Feeding the gators. Gators know a good food source when they saw it, and if you weren’t providing that food source when they were hungry, the next best thing was Fluffy (the toddler stories are beyond extremely rare, I’m sure the number of small children drowning in water with gators is 1000x more common, because those tragedies happen regularly).
That was my point.
Yes, I know that.
Maybe they built the chapel for the alligators?
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Not exactly on point, but Devon has always has the H/J show and the Gaited show running at the same time, in the same ring. And in the “old days” (showing my age here) out west, the H/J and Western shows were interspersed. It is no big deal to combine shows and I recall watching the Western classes a lot.
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