http://www.news-press.com/news/local_state...6catupdate.html

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A teenage boy who fed a neighbor’s pet cat to an alligator Thursday told investigators he just wanted to see what the gator would do, Cape Coral police reported. Andrew J. Castor, 14, of 1432 S.E. 24th Ave. was arrested on charges of felony cruelty to animals, feeding a gator and the theft of the cat.

read what the father says... typical. i hope he goes to jail for a long time.

That's horrible

He should be tried as an adult, and get the maximum punishment.

I agree with Homer ...
Because if the Boy did not learn his mistakes now ... He will never learn them later

omg, that is just sick. why not just watch a show on discovery channel. geez. hes a sick little boy. ~shay~

What did he think the gator would do?

poor cat!!! what an idiot of a boy!!

Wait, he's charged with cruelty to animals--well duh--, feeding a gator and theft of the cat.

I can understand the first one and the last one, but feeding a gator is against the law?

this person is one sick individual, anyone who deliberately hurts an animal is scum. I say lock the little pr@t up for a long time.

One thing I dont get it, what the heck was the gator doing in the canal in the first place....

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What did he think the gator would do?

My thoughts exactly racerette!

The ignornace of some people makes me so sad. My heart goes out to the owner of the cat. The boy should face the full penalty of the law. He was more than old enough to understand what he was doing.

gators live in canals in florida. they are in people's backyards and stuff.

when i was a kid i used to visit my mother in Florida. there was a canal in her backyard and the neighborhood kids kept talking about gators being in it and i didn't believe them. so we went back there and he told me a log was a gator and i was like, "no, thats a log". i tossed a stick at it and it thrashed around... i took off running

ty DS for the explaination

I agree with emmy, that no-one should hurt an animal unless it is attacking you, and even then you should only use enough force as would be necessery to get it off you.

QUOTE (Gunslinger @ Jun 10 2003, 01:10 AM)

I can understand the first one and the last one, but feeding a gator is against the law?

Of course feeding a gator is against the law. In fact, the crime is more severe for the gator, as they are killed for the crime. Imagine the dangers if gators consider humans as a source for food

Where I currently work, there used to be a gator in the back of the building where there is a pond, but they relocated it last year further from human contact

I think the fact that gators can eat you is a pretty good sign that they already consider you a food source, but I'm not sure what bothers me more, the fact that they made a law against feeding it or the fact that someone was dumb enough to feed it in the first place.

Rule of Thumb around a Gator: If you see a gator all the gator should see is your butt in the wind as you run the other way

Gunslinger,
Gators don't consider humans as a source of food, and most gators will do what they can to avoid human contact. If someone feeds the gator, it breaks down the natural instict it would have to avoid human contact.

There should be nothing about this that is difficult to understand