Alligators Kill Pets

George Brown says he lost his best friend.

"He walked down there and gator grabbed him," says Brown. "There could have been 50 armed men and nobody could have saved him."

Brown's eleven-year old lab, Shamrock was attacked and killed by an alligator on the Fourth of July. The Browns live on a canal right off the Causeway in Spanish Fort.

"It could have happened to me or you or to a kid just like it did to Shamrock," says Brown. "It's their habitat, they're all over the place. We just make sure we stay on dry land now."

"I feel bad for the Brown family," says alligator control agent Gary Casper. Casper was called in to help remove the alligators. "But what we don't want to happen is for a gator to pull a small child in and hurt a child."

Casper trapped and removed two alligators near Brown's home, including the gator that killed Shamrock. Casper says he's received several alligator nuisance calls from people in both Mobile and Baldwin Counties. On Tuesday, a petowner in Bon Secour says an alligator killed his dog. The dog was fetching a ball when an alligator attacked it.