I’ll agree that People are awful. I prefer dogs to hang out with better because they don’t talk.
This may be a case of location, I see your in Portland and know they do not naturally live there so it’s quite possible that you do not know hundreds of people that visit from the Coastal Carolinas down to the Keys that have had their dogs eaten by these “poor creatures”. It’s a reptile, they do what reptiles do and that is eat meat. They do not care what kind. People have been found, or rather I say parts of people that innocently go fishing when visiting from other places like...well Oregon or Idaho where they do not have alligators.
Yes, alligators still eat people for those that do not know this. To this day, people are being eaten by alligators. Around 2017 a young beautiful girl was raped, killed and then deposited in these so called lovely swamps where the “happy alligators” were and she was then eaten. Her mother has nothing to bury, but a lot of gators did have to be killed to find parts of this young girl. Hmmmm, wonder if her mother thinks alligators need to be happy? I’ve never seen one smile come to think of it, are they ever happy?
Just a though. We don’t have an antifi problem where most the gators are so there is that - I rather deal with gators they make better boots and are worth living since they are valuable for their skin...so maybe you have a point after all.
PS: I’m a vegetarian not a heartless jerk, I like cows and chickens and believe they have feelings. I have no use for alligators, not even in the same category.
Pigeon fledglings keep falling off his office building to the pavement below and there's nothing he can do to prevent it. 
