Brunswick County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff’s deputies in Brunswick County, North Carolina had a busy night last week when they were called out to wrangle a nuisance alligator and remove it from the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge after receiving multiple calls that a big ol’ alligator was prowling about.
Three deputies from the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office (Deputies Branch, Sutton, and Nichter) successfully located and relocated the “big fella” but the night didn’t end there. Hours later, they received another call that the large alligator was on Highway 17S and they had to go out and catch the large gator for the second time that night.
The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office shared a video on social media of the second rescue:
Seeing them drag that massive alligator reminds me of when my new 1yo rescue puppy, an Anatolian Shepherd x Great Pyrenees mix, sees a rabbit and turns into a stone statue and cannot be budged unless I physically pick her up and start carrying her (she’s a big dog) or let her off leash to chase the rabbit. That alligator simply did not want to be wrangled.
Right after one deputy says “it’s all fun and games” without finishing the ‘until…’ another deputy throws out ‘it’s gonna death roll’ and I feel like we, as an alligator loving society, need a new name for the roll when it’s on land. It’s not really a death roll when the alligator does it on dry land, is it?
Frankly, if I was there I probably would’ve suggested getting some of the deputies to go home and grab their dogs and get them out. That alligator would’ve been running top speed back in the water if there was a pack of dogs barking maniacally at it. One dog might be a snack to an alligator but a whole pack of dogs is a threat. As long as they were kept on the leash that wrangled alligator would’ve booked it back in the water.
Brunswick County is the area that encompasses the land south of Wilmington over to the South Carolina border.