Watch Three Men Wrangle a 5-Foot Alligator With Their Bare Hands

Nikki Ruiz noticed that her small dog refused to go outside to use the restroom — and then she saw why.

On her property in Hammond, Louisiana, was an alligator.

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"This time of year the gators are hungry because of five-months of hibernation from the winter,” Ruiz told WVUE-TV.

Ruiz, who said alligators are common in their area though not necessarily in her back yard, told the news station she called a local turtle and alligator farm who helped coordinate a team to move the five-foot animal.

Mike "T-Mike" Kliebert of Kliebert's Turtle and Alligator Farm with two other men wrangled the gator with their bare hands, eventually taping its jaw shut.

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Watch the ordeal:

As alligators are coming out of hibernation, others are reporting the animals in unwanted areas as well. Here's one trying to hide itself near a city's welcome sign, here's another tooling around Orlando, Florida, streets and this gator in Doral, Florida, didn't go into Fish and Wildlife custody without a fight.