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TexasTowelie

(111,938 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 07:56 PM Apr 2015

Monster gator has a new home

When Gary Saurage, owner of Gator Country in Beaumont, got the call that an alligator had been spotted at a pond in Groves, he had no idea how large the animal would be.

"Most of the gators we capture around this time of year are around six or seven feet long," Saurage said Wednesday. "This guy right here is just over 11 feet and around 400 pounds."

It took four people, Saurage included, to catch the alligator Monday.

Once they had the animal contained, they loaded him into a tractor trailer to transport him around the pond to Saurage's work truck, where he could be safely brought back to Gator Country.

Read more: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Monster-gator-has-a-new-home-6188985.php

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Monster gator has a new home (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2015 OP
you? samsingh Apr 2015 #1
That's right! TexasTowelie Apr 2015 #2
be safe! samsingh Apr 2015 #3
He's a beauty. NV Whino Apr 2015 #4

TexasTowelie

(111,938 posts)
2. That's right!
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 08:19 PM
Apr 2015

If I lived in that part of the state I wouldn't anyway because it is water moccasin habitat.

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