(Daily Mail/The Complete Sheet)
Nearly 20 years ago, a guy from Costa Rica named Chito found a crocodile, named Pocho, which had been shot in the eye and was dying on the bank of a river. So Chito took Pocho home and nursed him back to health.
Now, Pocho is nearly 17-feet long and weighs almost 1,000 pounds. But that doesn't stop 52-year-old Chito from SWIMMING with, and even HAND-FEEDING, his pet crocodile.
Chito says, quote, "When I found [Pocho] in the river, he was dying. So I put him in my boat and I brought him into my house.
"After ten years I started to work with him. At first it was slow. I started to play with him, touching him a little bit and then slowly doing more. Then I found that when I called his name he would come over to me . . .
"I just wanted him to feel that someone loved him, that not all humans are bad. I love all animals, especially ones that have suffered. It meant a lot of sacrifice. I had to be there every day."