{"id":656577,"date":"2026-05-08T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:08:23","slug":"florida-woman-suspects-break-in-finds-two-alligators-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656577\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman suspects break-in, finds two alligators fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 7 (UPI) — A Florida woman who thought an intruder was trying to break into her home investigated the ruckus on her lanai and found something more surprising: two alligators fighting.<\/p>\n

Kayla Burress said she was inside her Ave Maria home with her sleeping baby recently when she heard a loud noise on her screen porch that was steadily getting louder.<\/p>\n

“I thought somebody was breaking in because I never thought that the gators were going to enter my porch,” Burress told WINK-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n

She looked outside and discovered the cause of the sound was not a human intruder, but two alligators brawling on the lanai.<\/p>\n

The gators had shredded their way through the mesh. She captured video of one of the reptiles biting the other’s tail.<\/p>\n

“It definitely looked like they were fighting over territory or something,” Burress said. “It wasn’t like a mating ritual that I had seen, because there was blood and it had it some hind quarters, like in its jaws through the door.”<\/p>\n

Burress also captured video<\/a> of a licensed trapper cornering one of the alligators as it destructively thrashed around on the porch.<\/p>\n

The gators were relocated.<\/p>\n

“It was scary,” Burress said. “And I just warned everybody else in the neighborhood, like, watch your kids. Watch the dogs. Because it was fast and they were powerful.”<\/p>\n

Florida’s alligator mating season began in April<\/a>. The reptiles are known to become more aggressive and territorial during the season, which runs through early September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 7 (UPI) — A Florida woman who thought an intruder was trying to break into her home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[13715,49,48,243164,66,323],"class_list":["post-656577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alligators","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kayla-burress","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}