QUESTION FROM EMILY NUNN: The alligator meat business in Florida was apparently started by a man who was hired to get alligators out of people's pools.
"We don't customarily get alligators; we're mostly dog and cat people," said Doris Meyer, a spokeswoman for the Center for Animal Care and Control.
"Alright, so we've got alligator jerky, baked Arabian pastries, corn dogs, Pronto Pups, catfish nuggets, baked Pronto Pups, venison chili, bacon brownies, rib meat gumbo, bacon wrapped jalapenos, meat wad infernos, Kangaroo sandwiches, chocolate covered grapes, habanero ice cream, funnel cakes, nachos, BBQ turkey nachos, BBQ nachos with Grippos…".
"Here, we've got alligators.
"It is difficult to drain the swamp when you've got alligators nipping at you," Mr. Libby said.
He added: "It's a privilege to get an alligator tag.
If anyone else wanted to wiretap someone's conversations, they'd have to find a place close to his or her office, get some alligator clips, and try to find the right wire out of thousands to clip them onto, and hope that nobody spots you doing it.
WM: Some of these guys, they have deep pockets but they get those alligator arms sometimes.
He said researchers still needed to find $40,000 to undertake a yearlong project to get the alligators situated in a new home in the wild, where their progress would be monitored.
Without those first two records we would never have got to Alligator".
