Gator don’t really understand personal space 😂. Big gator seven here thinks he might be a lapdog 😂. Would you let him sit in your lap? More info on him from previous posts-At Everglades Holiday Park Seven is our biggest gator at EHP, he’s 10ft and likely around 350-400lbs. He gets the name 7 for a weird reason- alligators have five toes on the front feet, four toes on the back feet, so a total of 8 back feet toes. He is missing one of his back foot toes, so he only has 7 total back foot toes.

Some quick gator safety with Casper!! The three big ones!! NEVER feed a wild gator, not only is it illegal but makes them lose their fear, get reported, and get killed. A fed gator is a dead gator. Keep kids and pets away from the water, we have a gator that pulled a 70lb dog off a dock! And never swim with wild gators! You can come swim with me and Casper! I have tour openings this Friday and Saturday!. The tour appeals to both adventurers and animal lovers, and I offer to shoot my own photo pa

Wild gator handling! This is how all the “nice” gators you see me working with start when they’re first caught! This is a freshly caught rescue nuisance gator and is NOT aggressive, but defensive, it doesn’t yet understand that I am not going to hurt him and am not a threat, but repeatedly handling him like this will make him realize I don’t hurt him. This is part of the “mellowing out” process. Seeing a gator act like this upsets people, but this is the reality of the work we do, if you don’t h

Gator wrestling??? it can really have different means depending on who you’re talking to, an analogy I uses it is similar to martial arts in the idea that you could say you’re a fighter, but there’s a big difference between doing Greco Roman wrestling or kung fu, and there are different styles of gator wrestling. Unfortunately, some people are unethical in the way that they handle, so I don’t really like using the term often because it sometimes gives people the wrong idea. At the same time I li

Quick gator facts with Casper! Jokes aside, they really do have an amazing homing ability and will return to where they’re caught if relocated. This is why the state of Florida does not allow relocation of nuisance alligators in the only option for nuisance gators over 4 feet is life and captivity or being destroyed. 99% of them are destroyed as this is the only way a trapper will make money by selling the meat and hide. —You can come swim with me and Casper! I have tour openings this Friday and

You’re going in time out Mr Gator!! Putting muttley in time out😂😂 He’s gotta be one of the most stubborn gators I’ve ever worked with 😂. Sometimes you just gotta pick ‘em up and move them!! More info from previous posts-At Everglades Holiday Park We feed our gators at the rescue once a week, that’s it, and only a few pieces each. 40lbs between about 20 gators, once a week. And most are overweight from this! That’ll blow a few minds, but you just have to remember your high school biology! Bein

Calling Casper into the water for an underwater gator tour!! He knows his name and comes when he is called, as do most of the gators I work with! You can come swim with me and Casper! I have tour openings this Friday and Saturday!. The tour appeals to both adventurers and animal lovers, and I offer to shoot my own photo package for them as well. If you want to come join you can book online now, go to www.crocodilechris.com Let me know if you want to go!! Share the water with alligators in a safe

Gator scootin with my safety sandals! 🐊 This is my morning cleaning routine with the gators at the rescue! Every single morning we drain, scrub, and refill the show area pond at @evergladesholidaypark . once the water is low I have to use a broom to push the remaining dirty water down the drain, but the gators are always in the way. Since this is the last area that has water when the pond drains, it’s where all the gators congregate in the remaining puddle. They know the drill though, some of t

Showing off some gator training! Look how smart they are, holding their positions and patiently waiting. The same well trained gator might try to bite moments later if something changes, that’s why I’m always saying they’re trained not tame and always wild animals! More info from previous posts-At Everglades Holiday Park We feed our gators at the rescue once a week, that’s it, and only a few pieces each. 40lbs between about 20 gators, once a week. And most are overweight from this! That’ll blow