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The Alligator’s Roll
Greg Graziani, snake breeder and star of TV’s Python Hunter, has been chasing and catching reptiles in the Everglades of Florida since 1976, when at the age of seven, he caught his first snake. Snakes, frogs, turtles, lizards or alligators—if it slithered, hopped, swam or walked, Greg would catch it. As an adult, Greg has been keeping and breeding reptiles for decades. He works directly with Florida’s Fish & Wildlife and has been legally capturing and keeping crocodilians for ten years. He is licensed by the state of Florida to keep every species of exotic reptile except Komodo dragons. He has one of the largest collections of albino alligators in the world. For the last half of 2013, Greg has worked as an agent for Chris Lusby, a local trapper licensed to deal with nuisance alligators found on private and public properties. Needless to say, Greg is no amateur when it comes to dealing with alligators.
Monday afternoon, the 11th of November, Greg was responding to a call about nuisance alligator that needed to be captured and taken away. Chris was out of town that day, so Greg was handling the call.
The call was from a man who said he had a six-to-seven foot gator on his property. Greg’s twelve year old son, Lane, had just gotten out of school and was able to go with him on the hunt. Together, they found and caught a three-and-a-half foot monster gator.
“Naw, that ain’t it,” the homeowner insisted. “There must be another one out there. The one I saw was big and missing its right front leg.”
Lane turned the alligator in his arms and showed the man its missing right front leg.
That was a pretty typical call for gator hunters. The public almost always doubles the size or extremely underestimates the size of the animal they want taken away.
A second call came in later that night and Greg went out by himself. This run was made after dark, out on a marina. Greg had to walk out across a floating dock to find and capture an alligator that needed no exaggeration. She was a good seven-and-a-half feet, with part of her tail missing. Had her tail been intact, she would have measured over eight feet in length. Her whole back end was riddled with deep, long-healed scars, and Greg figured she must have had a bad encounter with the blades of a boat’s motor in her younger years...
The Alligator’s Roll
Greg Graziani, snake breeder and star of TV’s Python Hunter, has been chasing and catching reptiles in the Everglades of Florida since 1976, when at the age of seven, he caught his first snake. Snakes, frogs, turtles, lizards or alligators—if it slithered, hopped, swam or walked, Greg would catch it. As an adult, Greg has been keeping and breeding reptiles for decades. He works directly with Florida’s Fish & Wildlife and has been legally capturing and keeping crocodilians for ten years. He is licensed by the state of Florida to keep every species of exotic reptile except Komodo dragons. He has one of the largest collections of albino alligators in the world. For the last half of 2013, Greg has worked as an agent for Chris Lusby, a local trapper licensed to deal with nuisance alligators found on private and public properties. Needless to say, Greg is no amateur when it comes to dealing with alligators.
Monday afternoon, the 11th of November, Greg was responding to a call about nuisance alligator that needed to be captured and taken away. Chris was out of town that day, so Greg was handling the call.
The call was from a man who said he had a six-to-seven foot gator on his property. Greg’s twelve year old son, Lane, had just gotten out of school and was able to go with him on the hunt. Together, they found and caught a three-and-a-half foot monster gator.
“Naw, that ain’t it,” the homeowner insisted. “There must be another one out there. The one I saw was big and missing its right front leg.”
Lane turned the alligator in his arms and showed the man its missing right front leg.
That was a pretty typical call for gator hunters. The public almost always doubles the size or extremely underestimates the size of the animal they want taken away.
A second call came in later that night and Greg went out by himself. This run was made after dark, out on a marina. Greg had to walk out across a floating dock to find and capture an alligator that needed no exaggeration. She was a good seven-and-a-half feet, with part of her tail missing. Had her tail been intact, she would have measured over eight feet in length. Her whole back end was riddled with deep, long-healed scars, and Greg figured she must have had a bad encounter with the blades of a boat’s motor in her younger years...
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