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Louisiana neighborhood gets unwelcome guest

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Franklin Foote has lived in his Sulphur neighborhood for years, and has never had a scare like the one he had Thursday morning.
 
"The sitter who sits with my wife on Tuesday's and Thursday's came in telling me there was something big in my garage" said Foote. "I said well is it a dog or a cat and she said no it's bigger than that".

Bigger than a dog and cat together, a 7-foot alligator made it's way onto Foote's carport and showed no signs of leaving.

"I went around and got to the front of my car and saw maybe two feet of it's tail and I knew then what it was" said Foote.

Foote called 911, who instructed him to call the Sheriff's department, who instructed him to call Calcasieu Parish Alligator Nuisance Rescuer, Randall Hebert.

"Whenever I got there the deputies already had them corralled" said Hebert. "So basically, all I did was load him up and brought him to relocate him" he added.

"This ain't our first rodeo with alligators" said CPSO officer, Landry Willis. "We've caught a few before... as long as you don't go in rambo style and try to wrestle him, you end up well".

With this being the first alligator sighting Foote has experienced in his 20 plus years of living in his Sulphur home, he thinks a drainage canal some hundreds of yards from his home is where the gator came from.