A family dog named Zeus summoned the strength of his namesake and managed to escape the literal jaws of death when an alligator dragged him from his backyard into a nearby pond, the dog’s owners said.

“The vet told us the gator had just missed his jugular — it looked like Zeus’s entire head had been in the gator’s mouth. The fact that he made it out alive is nothing short of a miracle,” the family wrote in a GoFundMe post.

Even the vet said, “‘I don’t know how he survived,’” the family added. 3

Zeus, a German Shepherd, heard a noise on the night of June 2 and scooted through his doggie door out of his home in Wesley Chapel, Fla., to investigate, the family said.

In an instant, an alligator came crashing through their backyard fence, snatched Zeus and dragged him to a pond, they sa

See Full Page