400-Pound Alligator Moved Since Children Swim Near The 11-Foot Gator’s Pond [Photo]

Authorities had a 400-pound alligator moved since children were playing very close to the small pond where the gator lived in Southeast Texas. The alligator is joining a preserve called Gator Country that caters to gators in Beaumont, Texas.

In a related report by the Inquisitr, a Florida man was arrested and charged with a felony after deputies found an alligator in his son’s room. Unfortunately, Michael Jackson’s alligators were “boiled alive” in a fire, and the zoo owner blames animal rights activists.

A landowner, who lives close to the alligator, called in about an aggressive alligator living in a rural pond where local children were known to take a dip. The 11-foot reptile was deemed too dangerous to remain where it lived, and Gator Country preserve owner Gary Saurage had the 400-pound alligator moved.

The photo above shows the Gator Country owner going to the swamp to rope and have the 400-pound alligator moved, but obviously the gator did not like this plan very much at all. Regardless, Saurage says they were able to move the big guy, and he is now healthy and happy at his new home in Gator Country, where more than 400 other alligators live.

Gary Saurage says he was happy to give the “majestic animal” new freedom in the preserve, never mind keeping the children safe from harm. Although this gator’s size sounds massive at 11-feet, 400 pounds, it turns out the alligator is already outclassed in its new home, since the biggest alligator at Gator Country is nicknamed Kong and stands at 12 feet, six inches. They also estimate that the smaller gator is between 35 and 40-years-old.

So what is the largest alligator caught in Texas? A group of hunters in Texas caught the large gator over seven years ago, but it was not until 2014 that the Safari Club International officially named the 880-pound alligator as the world’s largest American alligator caught legally. They even measured Texas’ largest gator as measuring at 14 feet, eight inches.

One of the hunters explained how they caught the world’s largest alligator ever caught.

“We hook a gator. The gator dives down and wraps up in the line on the bottom. We can’t get him to surface,” Ryan Haltom said. “We don’t know how big he is — or IF he’s alive. We go in (the water) anyway.”

Unfortunately, the world’s largest alligator did not survive this ordeal, and instead of resting in a preserve, it was stuffed and mounted for display.

[Image via People]