Texas dad determined to get his daughter into middle school.
Mike Trinh heard Kaitlyn, the 11-year-old girl, screaming as they went out of Missouri City.
“She’s yelling, ‘Dad, dad, there’s an alligator at the front door!’ Of course, I didn’t believe her. You know, it’s her first day of middle school. So, I thought she was making up a story just so she won’t go to school,”Trinh stated.
This was not the case. “the dog ate my homework” excuse. It was the real deal — and Trinh got to work, with a little help from the Crocodile Hunter himself.
“Get a towel, put it over his head and calm it down. And that’s exactly what I did,”Trinh stated.
It is also a blessing that the doting father happens to be an MMA fighter.
“The first thing was trying to shut the mouth and trying to get it on his back, which is what I do with jiu-jitsu,”Trinh stated.
Trinh has never called animal control. Trinh took the gator to his truck, and then released it in a nearby pond.
Kaitlyn made it to her first day of middle school — with quite a story to tell.
Experts advise against approaching alligators and recommend that you call animal control.