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Diary of Reggie, Alligator at Large, Entry

May 21, 2009

Oh my droogies, it has been a while between posting, but my WiFi access in this stinking zoo pond is, shall we say, intermittent. While I&;m online, I must warn you about an insidious threat to alligators everywhere: chicken.  Superman has kryptonite, we have chicken.  They play upon our weakness to capture us.  Just as I was lured, brother Texas gator was thrown in the pit of iniquity, brought down by the scent of a chicken, that he was not even allowed to eat!  Now he lingers in a wildlife facility, held for &;rehabilitation&;.  For what? The crime of alligatorhood? And in our Florida homeland, a young brother was broomed by a beast for smelling her cooking.  No chicken for him&;but at least he got a nice big bite of redneck.

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Diary of Reggie, Alligator at Large, Entry

August 15, 2007

OK, I ran for it.  I admit it. I got freaked out.  I mean, I was raised in a bathtub.  That&;s where I learned to climb walls.   Pretty cool for an alligator, huh?  But look at these people.  Wouldn&;t you run too?

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Diary of Reggie, Alligator atLarge

August 12, 2007

OK, I was  swimming in some lake, nostrils on top.  I smelled chicken, so I crawled up on land and bang&;they put me in a cage.  Next thing I know, people are pushing my snout down, wrapping me in a towel like I&;m a baby, and carrying me to some dirty swimming pool in the zoo.

What&;s an alligator to do?  Why are all these people watching me lying there like a log, waiting to see if I bite something? And why do they keep playing that song saying &;You can check out any time you like but you can never leave&;? What is this&;Hollywood?

  

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Animal Acts and the SillySeason

May 1, 2007

Reggie, the lovable alligator dumped in a Long Beach lake by his loser owners when he got too big, is back!    This week also brought us a grizzly bear attack and aftermath. It follows the death threat against little Knut the Polar Bear and the pet food panic.  Last spring, a coyote in Manhattan was a huge story, even as Californians used to real Wileys said WTF.  There&;s West&;s incredible cover piece on Cheeta, 75-year old survivor of Hollywood&;s golden era.  Lucky and Flo. And panda porn. Alligators, bears, monkeys and coyotes don&;t buy papers.  But people who care about them apparently do.  Is reading about animals a respite from the depressing doings of humans?  Do animal stories pull  like Hollywood fish-out-of-water tales?  Do they bring the call of the wild to sedentary urban people?  Or are animals part of the reader&;s idealized family, as in this 1939 (!) shot of Cheeta with Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan and Maureen O&;Hara as Jane.   Or has what was once the summer silly season  become a year-round media game of trivial pursuit?

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