{"id":40437,"date":"2023-04-02T23:39:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/24-year-old-dog-collar-tags-found-in-giant-gators-belly\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:39:17","slug":"24-year-old-dog-collar-tags-found-in-giant-gators-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/24-year-old-dog-collar-tags-found-in-giant-gators-belly\/","title":{"rendered":"24-Year-Old Dog Collar Tags Found in Giant Gator&#8217;s Belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">You can be taught loads about an animal from what it eats. Usually, which means poking a pile of scat with a stick. But for one South Carolina alligator hunter, the stuff that <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> move by way of a 12-foot gator was rather more attention-grabbing. <\/p>\n<p>Ned McNeely introduced the 445-pound gator to Kenneth Cordray\u2019s butcher store in Ravenel, South Carolina, after taking it on his property in Adam\u2019s Run in April 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2021\/04\/09\/quarter-century-old-dog-tag-among-items-found-foot-sc-gators-belly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WCSC<\/a> reported. (Killing nuisance gators on personal property is authorized year-round in South Carolina.) McNeely reportedly requested Cordray about trying by way of the gator\u2019s abdomen contents. Cordray finally obliged, and the outcomes had been gobsmacking.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation yielded 5 looking canine collar tags, a number of bobcat claws and turtle shells, a bullet casing, and a spark plug, Cordray wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cordrays\/posts\/pfbid036aVh2JuT5g9ugbxFYjt9RU93wbAyp2vFU7TBZ7MCmEV3acQHnhEBE7p1qLzEd3QHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook submit<\/a>. (No, this isn\u2019t an April Fool\u2019s joke.)     <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcordrays%2Fposts%2Fpfbid036aVh2JuT5g9ugbxFYjt9RU93wbAyp2vFU7TBZ7MCmEV3acQHnhEBE7p1qLzEd3QHl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"742\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the canine tags nonetheless had a legible cellphone quantity printed on it, so Cordray gave it a name. An older man answered the cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said that he had a lease down on the other side of the river from where the gator was killed, 24 years ago,\u201d Cordray advised WCSC. \u201cAnd they always figured [that] the dogs got eaten by the gators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cordray referred to the canines as \u201chunting dogs\u201d all through the report and \u201cdeer dogs\u201d within the Facebook submit. He estimated they weighed round 80 kilos. If the canines\u2019 proprietor appropriately recalled when he had that lease, that meant the gator was properly over 25 years outdated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to shoot it a couple of times, and I had to get a bunch of ropes and hooks and kayaks and a tractor with a chain to finally get it out of the canal,\u201d McNeely mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/hunting\/processor-finds-ancient-relics-in-gator\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mississippi Processor Finds 8,000-Year-Old Relics within the Belly of a 750-Pound Gator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook submit is resurfacing on social media though the hunt occurred two years in the past. Plenty of on-line commenters have weighed in. One commenter wrote that the South Carolina gator might assist with Florida\u2019s python downside, whereas one other talked about the way it belongs in Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not. Yet one other commenter left a very optimistic quip: \u201cGlad they didn\u2019t find any wedding bands!\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2\" id=\"facebook-js-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] You can be taught loads about an animal from what it eats. Usually, which means poking a pile of scat with a stick. But for one South Carolina alligator hunter, the stuff that didn\u2019t move by way of a 12-foot gator was rather more attention-grabbing. 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