A large alligator was corralled and taken to a gator farm after it forced its way into a woman’s house in Sarasota County, Florida.
Mary Hollenback heard banging on one of her doors on March 28 and went around to find the scary, scaly surprise waiting for her.
“I’m sitting on my sofa. It’s late in the afternoon. I’m just watching TV, and I heard my front door rattle, my screen door. And I thought somebody who didn’t live here was trying to come in, thinking that they were probably in the wrong house because that happens frequently. So, by the time I got up and went near the front door, the gator was already inside,” she told Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA-TV.
A pair of thoughts came to her mind once she saw the unwanted reptilian house guest.
“One is, ‘Oh my gosh, I have an alligator in my house,’ and number two is, ‘Oh my gosh, I have an alligator in my house; how am I going to get rid of him?,’” Ms. Hollenback told Fox’s WTVT Monday.
The alligator, 7 feet 11 inches long, was captured by deputies from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and taken to the farm, FWC officials told McClatchy News.