I've already explained Gator's usefulness in this form, that he acts as a time-wasting distraction for a certain unsavory ilk- exactly why he is wasting your time I do not know ( except for that reason I didn't think I'd hear after retiring from working in education "he started it") - Now that I'm pretty old, I try to walk every day and almost every time I walk , my neighbors tiny poodle barks ferociously at me, I do not bark back.