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    Alligator kills 28-year-old Texas man during late-night swim

    Alligator kills 28-year-old Texas man during late-night swim

    Published July 03, 2015 Associated Press




    NOW PLAYINGGator kills man swimming in Texas bayou

    ORANGE, Texas – A man has died after an alligator attacked him during a late-night swim at a Southeast Texas marina.

    Police in Orange, near the state line with Louisiana, say 28-year-old Tommie Woodward was swimming in a bayou early Friday morning when the attack occurred.


    Orange County sheriff's deputies and a Texas game warden found his body nearby about two hours later.


    Police said the man was swimming with a woman, but Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told KFDM-TV in Beaumont that she only jumped from a dock after the man screamed for help.


    Price says a sign warns people not to swim in the area and that the man was bitten soon after he jumped in.


    The woman was not hurt.

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    Brazen alligator eats dog at Florida boat ramp

    Brazen alligator eats dog at Florida boat ramp

    Posted: Jul 03, 2015 11:19 AM PDT
    Updated: Jul 03, 2015 11:19 AM PDT
    Posted by Rachel Jones

    (Photo: Gregg Patterson for the Tallahassee Democrat)

    (Tallahassee Democrat) -- When an 8-foot alligator grabbed Mike Karris' 11-year-old dachshund, Cody, at the boat ramp in theSt. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, he and his fiancee didn't think about their own safety for a second.

    They immediately dashed into the water after Cody.


    However, they were unsuccessful in saving their dog from the alligator as it retreated into the pond near the boat ramp crowded Saturday with throngs of people heading out for the opening weekend of scallop season at St. Marks.


    "I couldn't catch up to the gator. It was so fast," Karris said Tuesday. "The whole thing, start to finish, didn't last five seconds and the dog wasn't on the ground for more than a minute."


    Karris and his fiancee returned to the ramp around 3 p.m.

    While they were preparing their boat to leave the park, they set the dog on the ground, unleashed.


    He estimates the alligator came out of the pond, crossed 10 feet of grass and gravel and then went onto the pavement where the boat was parked. The animal may be acclimated to humans given the brazen attack at the bustling ramp.


    However, Karris is not trying to shirk the responsibility to leash pets in the park. He blames neither the alligator for its natural instinct, nor park staff whom he has contacted since the incident. He just hopes his experience serves as a warning to others.


    "While it's up to us to be our first line of defense and watch out for our loved ones," Karris said, "I'm not sure having a gator that's aggressive and not scared of humans at a family-friendly park is a safe situation."


    There is a leashing requirement in the park, however, incidents involving humans and the hundreds of alligators throughout the park are rare, said refuge manager Terry Peacock. The last attack on a dog was more than 15 years ago.


    Refuge officials, who expressed sympathy for the loss of the dog, have a duty to the animals at the park. But they aren't in the animal-control business, Peacock added.


    Alligators that have become a threat to humans have been removed from the park before, Peacock said, but there have been no reports of this animal being aggressive toward people near the boat ramp.


    "I can't punish an alligator for being an alligator," Peacock said.

    "That's just an alligator being its normal self."


    Refuge officials are monitoring the large reptile, have posted signs and are handing out "living with alligators" literature to visitors.


    Sometimes complacency in the long interval between the rare attacks can cause people to forget they are coming close to dangerous wild animals.


    Any body of water in Florida can hold alligators and with more people expected to enter the park over the holiday weekend, it's important to keep an eye on pets, Peacock said.


    "People just need to understand that we are a national wildlife refuge, and first and foremost, we are there for the wildlife," she said."


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