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A family in Florida were forced to call in animal rescue after discovering a 10ft alligator was trying to get inside their house.

Dad-of-two Metts Bahadir has lived in the sunshine state of 30 years and has never seen an alligator before.

But he was in for the shock of his life after he heard a loud noise outside of his home that roused him out of bed.

Mr Bahadir and his wife, Sheri, have two sons – five-year-old Aaron and eight-year-old Devin – were lucky to have escaped with harm during the scary visit.

Mr Bahadir who lives in Lutz, north of Tampa, initially thought a motorcycle had crashed into the building.

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And as he got up in the the middle of the night to investigate he heard a loud scratching noise before spotting the 10-foot long alligator sitting by the door and trying to get inside.

In this video Bahadir captured the scary moment the trapper puts the lasso around the huge bull gator's neck.

"It was scary," Bahadir said.

"It was like the wild kingdom was at my door.

"If I had opened the door I could have gotten me."

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When Tampa Police were called they immediately reached out to a trapper who arrived on the scene with a large lasso to wrangle the alligator off the front lawn.

According to local media reports the alligator, which reacted with fury after being caught, was eventually killed.

There is been a massive increase in alligators sightings in residential areas in Florida in recent years.

The reptiles are mostly found in freshwater swamps, marshes, rivers and lakes.

But the building of large scale developments including homes and golf courses in their natural swamp natural swamp habitat has forced them into the canals used by residents for recreation.

Only a handful of unprovoked alligator attacks occur every year and experts say what happened to the Angus expat was a one in two-and-a-half million chance.

One possibility is the gator had previously been fed by hand and had begun to associate humans with a source of food.