Touching an alligator

I got to touch an alligator to try to make it go to sleep. The guy said if I touched it wrong I would get a puddle of consequences. I knew what he meant. It meant the alligator would pee on me. The guy really used a squirt gun to squirt some water out. My eyes got really big when when I thought it really peed, says Daddy.

Note from Mom: We attended a great Earth Day program in our community called Embracing Our Earth. One presentation was from Animal Encounters and covered the food chain in a tropical rainforest. It was very good. Before Mike brought out a small alligator (either the one in the picture above or one of its counterparts) he asked if anyone has ever wanted to wrestle an alligator. No one. He asked for a volunteer to try, and Addy was the only one to raise her hand. He brought out the gator and asked if she'd like to put her head in it's mouth. Of course, she said yes. Apparently he didn't know what kind of kid he was getting to volunteer. He actually had her pet the alligator on the belly while he held it on its back and that caused it to fall asleep. First he joked that if she did it wrong, she'd get the puddle of consequences and he used the squirt gun.