A 3-meter crocodile is not the kind of neighbor that someone expects to receive at your home.
Jacob and Angel Breytenbach, from Moedwil, South Africa, were not very pleased to meet one of these reptilian visitors, who was caught using his backyard pool as his own collision site.
Angel was outside at about 4:30 am on Friday, when he spotted “something big floating” in his pool. It didn’t take long for the native Australian to realize she was a crocodile, she told Storyful, and called in animal control experts to her home.
“I must applaud everyone for the incredible way they handled the situation,” she said of the team that helped put the creature to safety.
Exciting images taken during the capture of the crocodile show the team using a lasso to take the beast out of the pool as it struggles in the water.
“Jump on your teeth!” the brave Australian can be heard shouting in the background. “Right back, there it is. I’m an Australian, I’ve seen it done before. “
The team of burly men was able to pull the huge animal into the grass and determine that it was an adult male crocodile. To calm him down, they put a white cloth over his head until additional rescue aid arrived.
“Only in South Africa,” says Angel in the video.
The Johannesburg Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation organized the safe transfer of the crocodile back into the wild after it was likely displaced by recent weather events, they said.
“Several animals were displaced and presented in strange places due to the heavy rain brought by Cyclone Eloise. This crocodile is believed to have come from a nearby river, ”wrote the group in a recent Facebook update.
“The crocodile was safely removed and placed in a safe place,” they added. “It will be checked by the Department of Nature Conservation and then returned to its natural habitat.”