THE DAILY WIRE · MISSISSIPPI, USA · 2026-09-15
Nonprofit Puts Kids Face-To-Snout With Mississippi's Most Patient Predator
A Mississippi nonprofit has begun taking children with disabilities on guided alligator hunts, combining two things not typically found in the same sentence: accessibility programming and an animal with the bite force of a small car crusher.
The organization reportedly runs the outings as guided, supervised experiences designed to give kids access to an outdoor tradition that might otherwise be out of reach, with appropriate safety measures presumably doing a great deal of quiet, unglamorous work in the background. This reporter has not seen the full itinerary but assumes 'get closer to the alligator than Webster ever plans to' is not on it.
It is, by any measure, a wholesome story, which this columnist notes with mild suspicion simply because wholesome stories are rarer in this line of work than one would like. No incidents were reported in the material provided, and the alligators, one assumes, remained professionally indifferent throughout.
Beauregard, an alligator with decades of experience being hunted, photographed, and generally underestimated in the waters of the Mississippi Delta, agreed to offer the reptilian perspective on the program. He was, unusually for his species, willing to go on record.
Whatever one's feelings about the sport itself, a program built to get more kids outside and included is difficult to argue with, even from the alligator's side of the boat. Spun and done.
“I respect the effort, but y'all know we've got about four moves total and one of them is just floating menacingly. If the kids are having a good time, I'll allow it, but tell the guide my left side is my good side.” — Beauregard, local alligator
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