8-Foot Gator Removed From Backyard Of Manatee County Home: Watch

MANATEE COUNTY, FL — An alligator trapper, working with deputies, removed an 8-foot, 4-inch-long gator from a Manatee County home’s backyard in the early morning hours of Sept. 10.

“This is a job for a trapper,” a deputy who responded to the home around 1 a.m. said in body-worn camera footage. (Watch the video below.)

The deputy told dispatchers that a Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission licensed trapper was needed to remove what he estimated to be a 4- to 5-foot-long gator.

After securing the alligator, the trapper measured it, and found it was actually 8 feet, 4 inches.

“We were way off,” the deputy said.

The gator was relocated to a pond nearby.

Alligator mating season in Florida begins each year in early April, first with courtship, followed by mating in May and June, the FWC said.

By late June or early July, female gators build a mound nest of soil, vegetation or debris, and deposit an average of 32 to 46 eggs in it.

Incubation takes 63 to 68 days, and hatching occurs from mid-August to early September.

If you see a nuisance alligator, report it to the FWC’s SNAP hotline at 866-FWC-GATOR (866-392-4286).

Watch the deputy-worn bodycam footage from the gator’s removal below:

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