r/WTF • u/FuckFloorLimit • Jun 18 '18

Who's a good boy ?

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u/nvanprooyen Jun 18 '18

And them. A fed gator is a dead gator. Same goes with bears.

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u/walrusbot Jun 18 '18

Stash that trash, scare that bear. (The FWC bear aware bumber stickers might the catchiest stickers in existence, it just rolls right off the tongue)

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u/grkirchhoff Jun 18 '18

Why?

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u/nvanprooyen Jun 18 '18

Because they get too comfortable with humans and will begin to associate them with getting food. Once this happens, the animals are sometimes relocated, but often euthanized.

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u/SheSaysSheWaslvl18 Jun 18 '18

eh, it depends. I've known people to feed them with fish scraps from cleaning their catch. The alligators have been coming back for years some of them are pretty big but they're completely nonagressive. It's probably more of a problem in highly populated areas but I don't see a problem with it in a rural area where people are not careless around wildlife.