Gator riders' family business

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A five-year-old boy is learning his family trade by wrangling and wrestling huge alligators. Deep in the swamps of Louisiana T-Mike Kliebert teaches his young son Blaise how to wrangle some of the 2,500 gators they keep at the farm.

T-Mike Kliebert and his son Blaise tackle Chinaman a 12 foot alligator on June 26, 2014 in Hammond, Louisiana.

The Kliebert Gator Farm is the biggest and oldest in the world and was started by T-Mike's grandfather Harvey in the 1930s. T-Mike hopes that his young son Blaise will grow up to take over the family business but after the youngster sustained a bite his mother Sara Bordelon had different ideas - hoping he goes to college.

The family make a large amount of their money by showing amazed visitors around the farm - with young Blaise wrestling the gators and even sitting on one that is 15ft long becoming the star attraction.

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