W-Wild Kingdom?

There is a nature path I take when I walk the dogs.  On the left hand side (if I am traveling east), there is a canal.  On the right hand side, woods.  I may have complained about it before, because the canal is also behind a neighborhood, and there are many houses with fenced-in yards and annoying, yappy little dogs that run out and bark like very tiny Cujos at us when we pass.

In the canal, I often see the occasional lone alligator.  Never too big -- usually about 3 or 4 feet, for it is a small canal, and a six-footer would very likely go searching for deeper waters.  K-kind of like the part of the canal behind our house.  But I digress.  During my walks, I usually see an alligator.  An alligator, as in... one.

Today was the first day I saw two.  One was about three feet, the other about four feet long.  They were about a half-mile apart.

I was morbidly amused to note that one of them was camped out about two house-lengths away from  a home with two Yorkshire terriers, one Pomeranian, and one... either Jack Russell or Rat Terrier (I'm not sure which). 

I need to start taking my camera when I walk the dogs.