I agree with wolf-kim. Kill it and eat the evidence....Here in SE,La we have to many of them and have issues w. kids loosing body parts. Expecially in summertime people want to cool off and the gators are every where. We do have a unit w our sherriffs dept. who does just that picks up nucience gators. Instead of lightning bolts on his truck he has gators all over the front quarter panel. Pulls a trailer with all his necessary stuff to relocate them. They are protected here and we even have gator farms. I do not know why they are protected anymore.