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So, a couple months ago, a nearby county with stricter possesion laws than ours gave us a call saying they had a 6 foot spec that they had confiscated from a guys apartment. Well, we have other crocodilians and outdoor ponds/pens to accomodate such a beasty, so we said we'd take it. Well, it shows up at our house...and it's a whopping 14 inches. Yes, the 6 feet of death confiscated from some guys apartment...was 14 inches. So, using their caluclations, I'm 36 feet tall.

Anyway, all that aside, he decided to take our relationship to the next level today, through sharing "bodily fluids". I've been bitten by retics, burms, all kinds of nasty creatures, but this was my first crocodilian bite. We're keeping him inside at the moment (because he's much too small to keep with anything else we have) and I was removing him to clean out his pond, and he decided to let me know just how things are going to be from here on out. I guess anyone can make mistakes, and I'll be honest, it was absolutely his small size that let me let my guard down...definitely not something to be repeated! Sorry for the rambling, just wanted to share!

I've got one about that size that must have loved her first taste of me because now she tries for another every time I get close

I have one that is now about three feet. when it was about two it got me on the finger two days before my wedding. Still have the scar down half of the side of my finger. Boy was my wife pissed at me lol.
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My wife jumped up on the couch, and started laughing hysterically. I just looked at her like, "Thanks Honey" and she just looked back like, "You totally deserved that".

I've had my spec for over 15 years, she's pushing 5 1/2 feet. Never once was I bitten. Up until she was 4 feet I could hold her and lay her on my chest as I was watching football on the couch. However with life changes and free time limited, the past 4-5 years she hasn't been handled. Her temperament is unknown and with her size and power its best to let her be. However I'm setup a whole new setup this fall, so moving her shall be interesting.

I remember back when I was around 13 or 14 I had big mixed enclosure set up with a group of spec's, a dwarf caiman, a dwarf croc, a brown caiman and a couple gators .. all were in the 3ft-4ft range.

The brown caiman was dog tame, my little buddy! He was trained to come in and or out of water, he would jump up on command to grab snacks from tongs ... he was a very cool caiman and I worked a lot with this paticular caiman, he also chilled on the couch and watched tv with me quit a bit

I went on a 2 week vacation to AZ to get my first field experiances with hots ... while I was gone my grandma was in charge of the crocs, she apparently thought the water smelled a bit so she decided to clean it out, she rigged up a noose for the crocs and went to work, I guess she cleaned it out a few times over that 2 week period. These crocs were all very mellow, used to being handled to some extent and had never experianced a noose or all the added stress.

When I came back, the encolsure smelled nice and pretty ... but my crocs were all quit aggressive, exspecially the brown caiman! Which sucked, that brown caiman never came around and never lost his attitude after that.
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