Huge Alligator Found In Swimming Pool Of A Venice Home

We live in Florida.  We see alligators all the time.  Almost daily.

Typically, we see them sunbathing on the side of 75, or in a ditch, maybe in a lake on a golf course.  But, not in our family swimming pools!

Well, one family in Venice, FL did, according to Newsweek.  In footage posted back in January to the Facebook page of Hodge Pool Service, the massive alligator can be seen slowly moving through the water before authorities were called to remove the big guy.

Can you even imagine?

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