There Will Always Be A Florida

Blottered is working on a crime novel. It starts something like this:
As police on the ground scouted the wooded area behind Whitters' house, little else could be heard over the din of Whitters' six barking German shepherds and the chop of the helicopter flying 30 feet above. Quickly, the helicopter team alerted the ground patrol that a man was destroying the plants.

Who needs German shepherds when you have fanged monkeys guarding your stash?
A tipster told agents of possible drug activity at the home and warned them that there were maniacal monkeys in its backyard...The expert said spider monkeys are particularly dangerous because of their big teeth and ability to use them.

"Critter" on the loose in Hoot Owl. Residents still painfully dumb.
"He just steps over that fence," Al said, pointing to chicken wire separating a neat yard from dense scrub palmetto jungle. "He doesn't care about that, one leg at a time."