A man in Florida was shocked to find an alligator entering his backyard by squeezing through a narrow fence.
“It was incredible,” Bill Geiger Jr. told FOX 35 Orlando. “It caught me by surprise. I was shocked…I wasn’t really afraid of it; I was just wary of it.”
It didn’t take long for Geiger of Cocoa Beach to learn why the 6-foot alligator was breaking into his yard. The alligator had a nest in the yard that it was protecting, and it was in a full defensive mode.
From FOX 35:
Geiger said he would love to leave the alligator to her own devices, but he has a one-year-old granddaughter who hasn’t been able to swim in his pool because of the gator, and his son hasn’t been able to bring over his dogs.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said each gator nest has an average of 32 to 46 eggs, and Geiger isn’t willing to meet the whole family of babies once they hatch.
“I called FWC to find out what to do. They told me, ‘You’ve got to contact the city, you’ve got to do this, there’s a lot of red tape.’ Eventually, probably in a couple of days, they’re going to come out – I hope – remove the eggs, relocate the gator,” said Geiger.
