alligators

This certainly isn't something that you see often in the Hoosier State.

You'd think the discovery of an alligator in a Kentucky home would be an isolated incident. But you'd be wrong. There's a history of America's largest reptile popping up where they don't belong.

A woman in Louisville opened her front door to discover an alligator on her step.

A possible alligator sighting in a western Kentucky has led to an advisory from the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources.

A caiman--a member of the alligator family--was captured unharmed in Lexington Wednesday.

Okay, so I've regaled you with a story about a cat I once had and all the trouble he could get himself into. But Austin's biggest nemesis was an aggressive and taunting blue jay. And that was about it. He steered clear of dogs. But I wonder if, had he been presented with the opporunity, he would have tangled with an alligator...