10-foot alligator found in family's pool - upi.com

14 April 2011

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla., Members of a Florida family said they were shocked by their beagle's discovery in their back yard pool -- a 10-foot-long alligator.

Annemarie Donovan of New Port Richey said her husband Kenneth came home from lunch Tuesday and spotted the gator when he went out to see why the family's dog, Jake, was barking at the pool, the St Petersburg Times reported Thursday.

"We have been here 20 years and have never seen anything like this," Annemarie Donovan said.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent trapper Candy Moniz to catch the reptile. The Donovans said the alligator managed to chip a pool tile during its struggle with Moniz.

Moniz was able to tape the gator's mouth shut and load it into her truck. Officials said the animal would be put down as part of Fish and Wildlife's nuisance policy.

The Donovans theorized the alligator may have come from a retention lake near their home.

"We need to get that screen fixed," Donovan said, "before a rattlesnake comes in."

Pork crackling colourer...??

Unlike what it name says, it's not for colouring crackling at all. Its for crackling paint in a creative way. But it leaves me wondering how does one colour pork cracklings then...?

It's a croc-eat-croc world - ntnews.com.au

10 April 2011

Two Territory fishos photographed this 5m saltwater crocodile having a snack - a 3m saltie, on the Wildman River in Kakadu National Park

A CANNIBAL crocodile has been caught red handed in a Top End river

Two fisherman came across the 5m saltwater crocodile taking a bite of a fellow saltie in Kakadu National Park, about 130km east of Darwin.

Industrial painter Shane Fraser said he was fishing with a friend in Wildman River when they came to a point where there was a lot of debris in the water.

The 35-year-old said they approached the debris and realised there was a crocodile "floating" in the water.

He said as they were peering down at the dead crocodile, a bigger croc appeared from beneath the water.

"It said 'you're not having that,"' he said.

"And it took a bite."

Mr Fraser said the crocodile would have been more than 5m long because his boat was about the same size. "(The dead croc) would have been about 3m," he said.

Mr Fraser and fellow fisherman Craig Beadman took this photo of the croc feasting on a fellow croc on March 13.

"It's a croc eat croc world out there," he said.

Saltwater crocodiles have been reported making a snack of a relative - the freshwater crocodile - but are rarely spotted taking a bite from a brother.

A 5-metre monster was pictured munching on a bull shark in a Kakadu river in June 2010.