AVE MARIA, Fla. \u2014 A Southwest Florida woman thought a burglar was breaking into her home. It was much more terrifying — two angry alligators were brawling outside in a battle that spilled onto her screened-in porch.<\/p>\n
Kayla Burress told WINK<\/a> that she heard a noise outside of her home in Ave Maria that was getting louder by the minute. When she looked outside, the two large reptiles were fighting violently.<\/p>\n The alligators slammed into the porch\u2019s screen, ripping through it and leaving shredded mesh and twisted metal in their wake, the television station reported.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought somebody was breaking in because I never thought that the gators were going to enter my porch,\u201d Burress told WINK<\/a>. \u201cIt definitely looked like they were fighting over territory or something.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Ave Maria is located 36 miles northeast of Naples in Collier County, close to the Everglades. And while gators in the area are not rare, a fight happening so close to home was frightening to Burress.<\/p>\n