PALM BAY, Fla. — Residents in a Palm Bay neighborhood are on high alert after a large alligator ate someone's pet cat.
Seventy-year-old Robert Geraci was browsing the Internet and sipping coffee Tuesday morning when he heard loud splashing in the canal behind his mobile home park. Geraci looked out and saw the cat in the gator's mouth.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials went to the scene Tuesday and agreed to send a trapper to catch the alligator. Gators larger than 4-feet are destroyed and the trapper gets to keep the meat and hide.
Residents living in the Palm Bay Estates neighborhood said they are hoping a trapper will be able to catch the gator. Bob Munch said it's been hanging out in the canal, and just in the last week, has eaten the cat, along with a large crane.
"Oh God, I hope they get rid of it. If anything ever happened to my dog," said Munch.
Residents said they don't know where the gator came from, but the belief is that it has made a drainage pipe at the end of the neighborhood canal it's new home. They said the gator has been there a few weeks.
No one knows whose cat it was.
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