hmm … he’s quite cuddly but I prefer them a little smaller and with fur on.
All very well but what about the alligator? 
Cheeky . 
… I’m a pushover for anything in a onesie. 
As you all know, I have no problem handling snakes & other wild animals, but I can read them. Alligators can look like they’re asleep & completely at ease, & suddenly attack like lightning. And their jaw strength is designed to tear off chunks - bones & all.
Isn’t it true that their jaws are quite weak when it comes to opening?
I think I read somewhere that a trick used by gladiators in Ancient Rome was to squeeze crocodiles jaws together with their arms so that they couldn’t bite.
Not that I’d want to put it to the test! 
Yes; the muscles that open its jaws are weak. The muscles that bite down are incredibly strong.
Have we ever watched or witnessed a house cat take on a Bear at the back porch?
The only wild animals I have held are young Possums and Garter snakes.
The snakes try to bite you with a venom to take down bugs and the Possums
nibble on your fingers between naps. Kind lil guys is the belief. Very sharp teeth though.
I once plastic bagged what I thought was a young dead Possum in the front yard.
Later he was in the trash out of the bag. I then put him in a shovel and walked toward
The timber out back, he jumped out and scampered away to return for bird seed that fall.
I make him a pet all winter with bird seed and a heated house on the porch. He grew up and left us.