Police in Florida remove two alligators from a swimming pool
@Deepizzaguy (113559)
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.
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@RasmaSandra (88481)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Jun
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 (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
30 Jun
I know how you feel even though I do not have a swimming pool in my rental home.
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@Nakitakona (58405)
• Philippines
1 Jul
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 (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Jul
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 (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Jul
@Nakitakona I am sure that the pool owners will fix their fences tighter after the alligators entered the swimming pool.
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@Nakitakona (58405)
• Philippines
1 Jul
@Deepizzaguy That's possible. It should be repaired.
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@Deepizzaguy (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
30 Jun
I know what you mean about seeing a live alligator in a swimming pool.
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@kareng (79131)
• United States
1 Jul
@Deepizzaguy I wonder what effect the chlorine has on them?
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@Deepizzaguy (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Jul
@kareng A good question how would chlorine work on them.
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@Deepizzaguy (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Jul
If I saw an alligator myself in a swimming pool myself, I would be scared.
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@Deepizzaguy (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Jul
Thank goodness in your part of the world there are no alligators. In Louisiana, many gators are visible.
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@Ineeddentures (13313)
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1 Jul
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 (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Jul
I have never gators mating before.
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@Deepizzaguy (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2 Jul
@Ineeddentures You are right.
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@Ineeddentures (13313)
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1 Jul
@Deepizzaguy
Probably not a very pretty sight at all and maybe even a bit violent.
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@GardenGerty (165565)
• United States
1 Jul
Wow. I would hate to be planning for a swim and have a gator encounter.
@innertalks (23100)
• Australia
30 Jun
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.
@Deepizzaguy (113559)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
30 Jun
That is true since alligators scare me.
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