ST JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A young alligator got a second lease on life after a Florida trapper hired to remove it from a St. Augustine neighborhood noticed it was in need of some help. Turns out, it had a snare penetrating through its upper jaw.
AJ Ellis, a licensed alligator trapper contracted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), was hired to remove the alligator. He went out to the neighborhood on December 10. After reeling it in, he noticed it had an injury to its face.
“That’s terrible, man; God, people are terrible,” Ellis could be heard saying on his Go-Pro video. “Why would somebody try and do that?”…