My dogs are dissapearing...

[texasgal]

Lake Placid is LOADED with waterways, ponds, and lakes. Gators are everywhere.

One thing we know, they aren't wandering off and getting lost:

1. Someone has either stolen them

2. Or killed them

3. Or a predator has gotten them - gator, coyotes, snakes (reallly big ones)

Time to change some things ...

Again, sorry for your loss.

 

[Rainstorm]

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only place I could possibly put a fence area in would either be our front yard which is still small and everyone drives through there, or our 2nd lot which their using to plant stuff. besides those places its pretty much sheds woods tree's. You name it.

 

[horsejody]

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only place I could possibly put a fence area in would either be our front yard which is still small and everyone drives through there, or our 2nd lot which their using to plant stuff. besides those places its pretty much sheds woods tree's. You name it.

I hate to sound harsh, but, if you don't have a place to safely and properly confine them, you shouldn't have them. Letting them roam off property is not good pet ownership.

 

[onthespot]

I agree, and also on another note... being the curious type person that I am, I would be tying a chicken to a string and hanging it above water over that pond and get game cam pics to see if a gator jumps up and eats it.

 

[RabbitMage]

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Seconding this. Sometimes despite our best efforts and intentions, bad things happen. But to lose multiple animals and change nothing...

 

[Countrywife]

how about a wireless electric fence- you would need to fence nothing and you would have your dogs.

 

[onthespot]

I wonder if a hotwire would stop an alligator?

 

[gritsar]

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Not a chance. One of my favorite places to visit when we travel to Florida is Gatorland. The little guys are behind hot wires and wire cages. The big guys are in enclosures, behind motes and very high walls.

 

[Epona142]

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This is the last thing I (as a reptile enthusiast, handler, and rescuer, and yes I have worked with crocodilians, including alligators, extensively) would recommend.

Placing food out will just teach a crocodilian, who are fairly intelligent, (did you know they have complex family structures?) where food can be found and desensitize them to humans.

Please don't do anything like this!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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This is the last thing I (as a reptile enthusiast, handler, and rescuer, and yes I have worked with crocodilians, including alligators, extensively) would recommend.

Placing food out will just teach a crocodilian, who are fairly intelligent, (did you know they have complex family structures?) where food can be found and desensitize them to humans.

Please don't do anything like this!

I was picturing a body part getting ripped off while trying to get a chicken strung out over that pond.



Personally, I'd worry more about keeping the dogs that are left contained and safe than about finding out if there is a gator in the pond.