Little gator Gabby and I rescued off a golf course five years ago! We spent four hours trying to rescue this little guy!
If you’re wondering why he couldn’t be left there, someone called it in, and once reported nuisance gators are shot and killed 99.99% of the time. Please understand that if you call in a nuisance gator it will almost always be killed, the state kills 8,000 each year. In this case we were able to work with the local trapper and bring the gator to a local wildlife facility(we didn’t have our own sanctuary yet). Nuisance gators over 4ft cannot legally be released/relocated, this one was 5’3”. Keep in mind that if you call in a gator you do not get to decide who comes for it or where it’ll go, and understand it will almost certainly be euthanized. We get lots of calls asking to come catch a specific gator and unfortunately that’s just not how the system works, we have no ability to respond directly or have any control over the situation, but thankfully we do get to work with some awesome trappers that do allow us to help out sometimes.
