BRADENTON, Fla. (May 17) - A woman has shot an alligator that came into her home and attacked her dog.
The alligator was only 3 feet long, but Candy Frey wasn't taking any chances. When the reptile came into the lanai of her home east of Bradenton Saturday and attacked her golden retriever, Frey went and got her gun.
After Frey and her daughter managed to push the gator out of the lanai through the dog door, she blasted away at it four times.
"I was running on so much adrenaline," the 48-year-old former U.S. Marine aviation technician told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. "I just freaked out and shot him - boom, boom, boom, boom."
A neighbor called deputies and the state sent a wildlife officer to investigate.
The alligator barely bled from gunshots to the neck and shoulder, Frey said, and wildlife officer put it back in the lake.
The deputy gave Frey a warning citation for hunting without a license.
Alligators have been blamed for three fatal attacks in the span of a week in other parts of Florida.
All I can say about this is WTF? A woman, minding her own business, in her own home, shoots an alligator that had gotten into her house and was attacking her dog, and then she gets a ticket for hunting without a license. True, she didn't get the gator with one shot, but you'd think they would have congratulated her on catching the alligator instead of giving her a ticket for shoot it without a license. It makes no sense. With all of the alligator attackts in the past few weeks, you'd think they would be happy that someone caught one of the alligators before it had the chance to attack another person.
While we're on this subject, have the wildlife people figured out why we're having all of these alligator attacks all of a sudden? Is it the weather or the greenhouse effect freaking them out? It wouldn't surprise me if they don't blame the alligator attacks on the Democrats.
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