Re: Pet crocodile

Posted by js305 on October 30, 2016 at 15:04:14 from (70.195.201.174):

In Reply to: Re: Pet crocodile posted by Ivan in Mich on October 30, 2016 at 11:28:15:

During the summer of 1964 I worked for TG&Y. Remember them??? We had an aquarium that had soft shell turtles and alligators for sale. The turtles were about 2 to 3 inches across. These are the same ones that some places used to paint, but they were not painted where I worked.

The little alligators were mostly less than a foot long, and kinda cute in their own way. It was my job to feed them. Honestly, I don't remember what the turtles got but we usually fed the gators redworms. The aquarium they were in had river sand on one end and water on the other. If we didn't have worms we slipped a half dozen goldfish in at night, the next morning the fish were gone. Didn't have to feed very often though, they sold really fast.

I do know they were mean little devils and would bite and hold on. About the only way to get one off was to poke something in the back of the mouth to gag it.

I'm sure most of them died in captivity, but there are still reports of someone finding one in the park that runs through Lubbock with a series of small lakes, more like a long creek in reality. The biggest one I know of being found was about 3 feet long. And that was years ago. Still, they live a long time, and the growth rate is really dependent on food supply. This park/water system here has lots and lots of ducks and geese that live here year round.

But, staying in touch with the story, I can see someone making a "pet" out of one, but being like a puppy, well, not so much.

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