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Alligators move into Orlando-area neighborhood

Updated: Thursday, 12 Nov 2009, 12:42 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 12 Nov 2009, 12:42 AM EST

It's not exactly what you expect to find in your swimming pool, a family of baby gators. Two of them moved in after the family who lived in the home moved out a while ago.

A woman who lives in the Pine Hills area saw a two foot gator sunbathing on the deck of a pool off Steach Drive. Rebecca Smith and her daughter Deborah just had to take some pictures.

"My mother calls me and says theres a gator in the pool next door," says Rebecca.

The two gators drew quite the crowd. "They all went into the pool and tried to catch the gator," she says.

Afraid something might happen, Deborah called 911. Trappers and Florida Fish & Wildlife rushed over.

"I located an approximately two foot alligator, it was hiding in the skimmer of the pool. There was a five-footer in the pool as well. He was at the bottom of the pool which was approximately 18 inches. The home I was at was foreclosed, so the pool was green and you can only see the top three inches of the water column," says Officer Daniel Sterman of Fish and Wildlife.

FOX 35 cameras where there when he released the baby gator near the Brevard-Orange County line. Sterman says this is not unusual.

"They walk around, they go from pond to pond, they're in retention ponds, they're in your neighborhood."

That's what worries Rebecca. Lake Robinson is just behind their homes.

"If there was two gators found, I'm sure there are more."

The five foot gator was turned over to a trapper.

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