Police in Florida remove two alligators from a swimming pool

An alligator taking a swim in a residential swimming pool in Florida
@Deepizzaguy (111329)
Lake Charles, Louisiana
June 30, 2025 3:45pm CST
Martin County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputies Dawn Ferris and Sergeant Crystal Nash along with professional trapper Matt Hines worked together to remove a seven foot alligator from a swimming pool in Jensen Beach Florida on Saturday May 31. The alligator was removed from the swimming pool safely and relocated to another area by the deputies and the trapper who had to deal with another alligator that was in another swimming pool in the same area. The officials with the MCSO are telling residents that the summer is alligator mating season which means more alligators will be going to swimming pools that are owned by residents. Link is upi.com/5611748965746 via @upi
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@RasmaSandra (86443)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20h
I'm now curious to go over to the fence and look into the swimming pool next door and see if there are any alligators
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19h
I know how you feel even though I do not have a swimming pool in my rental home.
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@kareng (76675)
• United States
21h
Now that would be a huge surprise to come out and find an alligator in your pool. YIKES!
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19h
I know what you mean about seeing a live alligator in a swimming pool.
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@kareng (76675)
• United States
17h
@Deepizzaguy I wonder what effect the chlorine has on them?
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14h
@kareng A good question how would chlorine work on them.
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@Shavkat (140486)
• Philippines
16h
I guess I would be freaking out seeing them in the pool. It is a good thing that they were found too soon before someone will get hurt.
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14h
If I saw an alligator myself in a swimming pool myself, I would be scared.
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@JudyEv (357178)
• Rockingham, Australia
16h
This would be very scary. I'm glad we don't have alligators (or crocodiles) anywhere near where we live.
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14h
Thank goodness in your part of the world there are no alligators. In Louisiana, many gators are visible.
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@Nakitakona (57114)
• Philippines
14h
That's good. During mating timr, those alligators are roaming around and settle to people's pool. Are they not secured? Do the residents haven't peromter fences for their houses?
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14h
Usually the residents have fences designed to keep the alligators away but someone how the animals find a way to get in via an opening or going under an opening.
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
Just now
@Nakitakona I am sure that the pool owners will fix their fences tighter after the alligators entered the swimming pool.
@Nakitakona (57114)
• Philippines
14h
@Deepizzaguy That's possible. It should be repaired.
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18h
Two, wow. That's one pool I wouldn't have been jumping into One of them would get me Have you ever seen alligators mating?
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14h
I have never gators mating before.
@GardenGerty (164423)
• United States
56m
Wow. I would hate to be planning for a swim and have a gator encounter.
@xander6464 (45250)
• Wapello, Iowa
12h
Where's Amos Moses when you need him?
@rakski (141188)
• Philippines
8h
good save! That will be scary if someone will use the pool
@innertalks (22942)
• Australia
19h
It was good that the owner just didn't run out of his backdoor, and do a flying blind leap into his pool, as he might have landed in the jaws of an alligator.
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@Deepizzaguy (111329)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19h
That is true since alligators scare me.
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@LindaOHio (192981)
• United States
10h
I'm glad they were able to relocate the gators.
• United States
4h
Yep,. they just see the pool as a lake or pond.