A 6-foot alligator was evicted from the Dominion Country Club by a celebrity gator wrangler Thursday afternoon.

The gator had “lived quietly” in the golf course pond for at least a year, said Erin Dougherty, the club’s general manager.

It never menaced anyone and minded its own business in the pond, Doughtery said.

“It just came to a point where we had to have that animal relocated before some idiot did something stupid,” Dougherty said. “Today was the day the trapper was available.”

Gary Saurage — star of CMT’s “Gator 911” — removed the gator, WOAI-TV reported.

Saurage told WOIA that it took 40 minutes to capture the gator because he kept diving underwater.

“I always tell everyone, ‘it takes two pounds to shoot something with a rifle. It takes a real man to catch an alligator underwater!’” Saurage told WOAI.

He added that the creature will be relocated to his Gator Rescue park in Beaumont.

Alligator sightings are “not uncommon” in San Antonio, said Capt. Danny Villalobos of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s law enforcement division.

“People buy baby gators from the black market,” he said. “A lot of them get released by people who have them who should not have them without a permit.”

Wild alligators also are occasionally seen in the San Antonio area.

The alligator was the second to be reported locally this year, Villalobos said. The first was found near Interstate 10 and Fredericksburg Road.

It was much smaller, he said.