What is your opinion? Should an alligator be killed if it attacks a dog?

Question

If the dog is loose an goes to the edge of the water and the gator gets it.

Answer 1

no. its the owners fault b/c theres a leash law. an alligator is a wild animal and cannot be punished for its instincts.

Answer 2

Ok. From someone who knows the process and the reasoning the State of Florida uses in a case such as this......

Relocation: An adult alligator has fought, sometimes to the death, for it's territory. In the '70's the state would tag problem alligators and move them up to 150 miles away, it takes them a few months, but they end up right back where they started, and are harder to catch next time.

Eating pets: Ok, so this one was a lapdog, yes, BUT this is what alligators do. You've got an animal that can grab an 80 lb dog and kill it in less time than it takes for that dog to so much as yelp. What happens when it's a kid in or near the water?

Florida's nuisance alligator program has been tweaked and altered, based on solid findings by state biologists and various environmental groups.

Now, this case in particular, (as ALL OF THEM DO), does have some issues....

Guy has his dog in the vehicle and he is not in the vehicle. It is Florida. I work outside, it's FREAKING HOT OUT, don't leave the window open, leave the air on for the dog while you're taking pictures. -OR- (and also better) have the dog on a LEASH! Because, yes, alligators are predators, and yes, they grab small animals on the edge of water, and they are in EVERY BODY OF WATER IN FLORIDA. Well, maybe not all the time, but I can promise you, you point at a ditch, or retention pond, or lake, or temporary mudhole and ask your local alligator trapper if he's ever gotten a gator from it, I can tell you, unless he's new, he'll say yes.

We're not running out of alligators. With intelligent management of the species (management being the key word here, people), we will have alligators forever.

Please, if you live in an area that has alligators, use your brain when it comes to these animals. They are magnificent, wonderful, and suprisingly smart, but they can't differentiate between a person or a dog or a raccoon, it's all meat to them. And I won't go into not feeding them or anything either.

Answer 3

The alligator should not be killed. There should either be a fence built around the Gators water to keep everyone safe including the gator, or the gator should be relocated somewhere in the wild where it can be happy and not bothered. Also, the dogs owner needs to keep a better eye on the dog.

Answer 4

The alligator was in the water behaving like a wild animal does - what it does is attack anything near the water. The dog should never have been allowed near the water. I'm sorry the dog was killed, but it's the fault of the owner for letting the dog loose.

Answer 5

Opinion:

Nope.

The Alligator is a primitive reptile and has been on this planet for about 225 MILLION years (in one form or another and not evolved much in all that time). For the Alligator, the dog is just another food item and should NOT be sentenced to death for doing a natural act.
If this death sentence is broadened to include all animal life, then Cats that kill Birds, Dogs that kill Rabbits, and EVEN Humans that kill other animals for food would be included.

Answer 6

first thing i dont think you should give your dog the chance to get loose second, i think that the alligator should be transported to another area, a less populated area, or just removed, because you never know next time it could be your little baby sister or a cousin or just a person i general that could not know better and get attacked.

Answer 7

No. The owner's should take more care of their pets, if they love them. Why kill an alligator for acting natural.

Answer 8

HAHAHA!!!
No way! It is a gator's nature to eat and attack things and the dog is at fault for crossing its premises

Answer 9

no the dog was at fault

Answer 10

if it was my dog, I'd kill that gator myself