Alligator Feeding GONE WRONG

You're going to see why in this video, it's a good thing. I have Juliet here to help me whole baby things get real. Okay. So I'm going to feed these guys and I'm going to feed the big catfish in here. We're going to move them. He is getting so big. The crazy part about it is we've got a bigger one in the pond that he's moving to, but this guy's becoming a little bit of a bully. Look at these fish, how excited they are. They're so excited to eat. It's kind of funny. Wow. Hey, he bit it right off. Oh, he bit my finger too. Okay guys. So let's see if we can do that again. Come on over here. Let's get a close up. Here. You think you're going to eat? Whoa. Whoa. I didn't get the tail. He took the whole thing. It's kind of fun feeding these guys here. Oh, whoa. Here we go. Here we go. Whoa, man. I don't know. Is this like feeding your kitty cat? Let's see here. Let's see here. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. He's over there. He's over there thinking about stealing the show. Okay, here we go. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Oh, he's carrying around like a bone, man. These guys just love to eat, but you know what? Check this. I'm going to show you something. Check it out. Before you move anybody, you've got to take them out to dinner. Oh man. The big one. The big one doesn't even get up. I can't even pull them up the top. Rusty wants a piece of the action. Is this what you want? Is this what you want? Rusty? You got to work out a little bit for it. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Rusty. What's that funny noise you're making? Come on. Come on. You got to exercise. Exercise. Oh yeah. Is that good? Okay. Okay. That is too much for you. You haven't even swallowed your food. You're not supposed to keep eating. Oh my goodness. He literally has three chicken legs right there. Come on. Swallow your food there, buddy. Whoa. Whoa. He was ready for a Italian dinner. Oh, we got a problem. I still gotta feed the Gators. Uh, okay. We'll feed the Gators. Darth is hungry. Let's go feed Darth. Juliet's going to open it up for me. Darth and Gomer are ready. Okay. Here we go. I'm just curious. Does this look like fun? It can be a little crazy. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on Gomer. Come on. Come on Yuri. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh boy. Here we go. None of you suckers. Okay, zoo's closed. We're actually open. This is not COVID. So the good news is I purposely did it cause nobody was here. The bad news is, Darth, you stay in there. Nope, nope, nope, nope, Darth. Okay. I gotta let, okay. Okay. Oh, these things. There we go. Okay. Now I need to call him my sidekick. Okay. So now we can't just put them back in. We've got to walk them out. He's really powerful and that's why we didn't feed him while we were, we were open, but we're not open as in like, there ain't a bunch of people here. Come on boy. Come on. You got to turn around. We got to put you back in. On your dog. This is not normal. The good news is, like I said, we didn't do it when anybody, we knew the zoo had a break in people. Oh, he's finishing his food. We'll let him finish his food. I want him to walk, get his nervous energy out. Just like a big retake. When I'm struggling, when it's coming up, like framing for eggs, you know, defend its eggs. Well, this guy here, he's kind of like a little bit like confused that he's out. He wants to get back in. He can't get back in. Cause we have above ground. If it was a pond, he would never come out and never fell out. But because it's above ground, he fell out, jumped out actually. But come on boy. You can tell he's not at all freaking out about being out. Oh, these handles. Oh man. So when he tires out a little bit, we'll carry him back in. And I could do it quicker, but I want to make sure that he's don't stress out and you won't hurt him. I mean, he could people hog time and everything else to move them. And I mean, Steve Irwin himself used to just wrap their faces up and tie them. I just do it a little bit different. I just let the animal use some of his nervous energy up and let him figure it all out. He wouldn't hurt him at all. He's bulletproof to say the least. He's an alligator been around for millions of years. They say, I don't know how many millions, but I'm not mistaken. It was pre dinosaur. But anyway, so I just want him to work his own energy out because we've been working with him his whole life. So I want him to just like move his nervous energy out. So when I go to pick him up that everybody's safe, including him, come on, come on, come on. Why are you grumpy today? Come on. He's carrying his bone around. So he can't be too bad off. Oh boy. Look at that. Whoa. Just so much power in an alligator. Just amazing. Crocodiles are even more powerful and they're so incredible. Look at this. So he's even got a pair of goggles. So if you look at his eye, see he's got a second pair of goggles and he'd close his eye completely, but they sleep with their eyes kind of open, but they still want to underwater. They use those goggles. Hey, finish your phone. Come on, eat your food. Okay, boy. Come on. Are you almost ready to relax and get put away? You ready? Come on. Okay. So we're going to have to, I think it's almost time. Darn. You got to stay in there. Darth wanted to follow him out. I was like, never had that happen. One's enough. There's two of us and we figured out but this is why we do not feed during while we're open. And I, and to be honest, we're open, but I mean, when I feed, I don't have a big crowd unless I'm going to feed a certain way. And because of COVID and all that time, I kind of trained him to jump up higher and eat. Cause it makes good videos for all you guys. And you know what? Good exercise for them. Enrichment. Everybody's happy. They're getting exercise and we're getting cool videos and everybody's enjoying themselves. That being said, I created a little bit of a monster. Cause this time he jumped out on his own. I think she did it. It was so easy when he was a little puppy. Now he's a big puppy. I'll guarantee you the next zoo. I have the new one. We're going to open up. Have a way to walk him in and out and there'll be trained to walk in and out so we don't have to lift them up over all that. Okay. Go over. Oh man. Figured I'd give Gomer a quick meal after all that crazy. Are you okay? Oh man. That was a little bit wild. Now that being said only for professionals and the good news is literally they're illegal in California because they're invasive species. These things can destroy the environment and they can destroy a zoo if you're not careful. But luckily, like I said, we did it when nobody was here. We had everything under control and I had Juliet us brewers hang tight together. You want to give you want to feed the last one off? They're her babies. There you go. Live with a dream.