A ten-footed crocodile is not the kind of neighbor someone hopes to welcome into his home.
Jacob and Angel Breytenbach, from Moedwil, South Africa, were not too happy to meet such a reptile visitor.
Angel was outside around 4:30 a.m. Friday when she spotted “something big swinging” in her pool. It was not long before the native Australian realized it was a crocodile, she told Storyful and called animal control experts to her home.
“I have to applaud everyone for their wonderful handling of the situation,” she said of the team that brought the creature to safety.
Exciting footage taken while catching the crocodile shows the team using a lasso to wrestle the animal out of the pool while pushing it into the water.
“Jump on his teeth!” the brave Aussie can hear screaming in the background. “Straight on his back, there you go. I’m Australian, I’ve seen it done before. ”
The team of compassionate men were able to pull the huge animal onto the grass and determine that it was an adult crocodile. To calm him down, they put a white cloth over his head until additional rescue aid arrived.
“Only in South Africa,” Angel says in the video.
The Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation of Johannesburg has arranged the safe transfer of the crocodile to nature, after they were probably displaced by recent weather conditions, they said.
‘Several animals were displaced and showed up in strange places due to the heavy rain that cyclone Eloise brought. It is believed that this crocodile came from a nearby river, ‘the group recently wrote in an update on Facebook.
“The crocodile was safely removed and placed in a safe place,” they added. “He will be checked by the Department of Nature Conservation and then released back into his natural habitat.”