Lame excuses, I don't buy any of it. Get your camera and jump in with the old boy and start snapping photos. Just don't let him bite the camera. Do a "Steve Irwin" and tease him a little with a morsel to get some "action" in the shot.

Or, have Tick operate the cam and you do a feeding frenzy for us.

My old grandpa used to live in Port Charlotte on a canal. He had the gators and the fish trained to come to his sea wall when they would hear him stomp his feet. He loved his gators but the old ladies in the neighborhood did not share his appreciation. I think they worried for their poodles. But poddles are smart dogs and know better than to get ate. He kept his reptiles well fed with road scrapings of squirrel and armadillo.

So get out there and get your gator.