Croc Man
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Shaun Foggett lives with his partner, their three kids and 23 deadly crocodiles. But that’s not enough…
He is an ordinary man with extraordinary dreams. Shaun, his wife Lisa and their young growing family live in a small house in the suburbs of Oxford. Packed into sheds that fill all but a tiny square of their garden, he also has a collection of 23 crocodiles – the largest in Britain. And that’s just the start…
In 2007, Shaun survived a near-fatal blood disease and as he recovered, vowed to pursue his ultimate reptilian dream – to open the first ever Crocodile Zoo in Britain with each of the 23 species of crocodile in the world.
We follow his journey over a period of 4 months as he gives up his job as a joiner to kick-start his hopes. He needs premises with a zoo licence and ritzy enclosures – that pull in the public and keep in the crocs. To wrangle his new charges Shaun needs specialist nous – so he has intensive Big Croc Sessions at St Augustines Park in Florida where many of the main Croc experts hang out and hands on zoo experience with Rene Hedegaard in Denmark, who owns a Croc Zoo and believes in only catching crocs with his bare hands.
He’s planning on selling his house and moving the whole family in with his brother, to raise funds – but Shaun needs sponsorship too. Lacoste is currently funding reptile programmes. Would they be interested? We follow our Crocodile Dundee, as he pursues his passion to bring crocs to British shores.
