13/06/2021
Catching up this wild alligator a few months ago to move it to one of the other rescues we work with. This gator is 7ft long and change. We have a revolving door of alligators, new rescues coming in and older ones moving out to other parks. This one is on the smaller side to be with some of our bigger guys and will be happier at one of the other parks. This gator is completely wild and defensive, one wrong move and it’s removing body parts off you. This is how ALL the gators you see me working with are when they first come in, they’re “nice” through training, but I like to remind everyone they all started this same way. I walk around this one as it strikes defensively at me, until it tires out a littler and I’m able to get a hold of it. I included two of the most dramatic clips in the beginning, and a blooper reel at the end where George keeps hitting the side of the mouth with the rope instead of inside😂.
I also like to share videos like this because most of my content is my training work with “mellow” gators, and one of the most common, and unintentionally but extremely insulting questions is “what if it turns on you”, assuming I only know how to work with the mellow gators and wouldn’t know what to do if it acted wild. People don’t understand every single gator I work with started this same way and I had to train them from this, and then people don’t know I’m also the guy out there catching them too! 😂 I’m like Rodney dangerfield out here, I get no respect!😂
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iami