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Day 4 -Alligator, A Man’s Best Friend
Can a 17 feet, bone crushing, dagger-toothed lizard learn to roll over, give a hand shake, and come when his name is called? An alligator is a brutish animals that lives by instinct alone, right? Chito saw an alligator starving and dying from a gun wound while fishing and took it home to care it back to life. While nursing the alligator, Chito petted and talked to the alligator, even named him. He tenderly called him “Pocho,” meaning muscles, while feeding the lizard back to its full one ton weight. When Pocho was brought back to the wild, it did not slither away into the murky river. It stayed where…