A Florida woman saved her puppy from the jaws of a 5-foot alligator by pounding the beast in the eye until it let go.

Danie Wright was walking 4-month-old Dax behind her home in Land O’ Lakes, about 20 miles north of Tampa, last week when the gator lunged from a mossy creek and clamped down on the pup’s collar.

“I heard a squeal, and I got pulled,” Wright, a Floridian of 20 years, told local CBS affiliate WTSP. “The alligator had him by his collar and dragged him, and I wasn’t gonna let go.” 3

She said she swung her fists until the reptile released Dax.

“I just punched him, punched and punched,” Wright said. “I punched him in the eye enough that he kind of let go … but his teeth dragged down my arm.”

Dax wasn’t hurt, but Wright suffered bite wounds and is now recovering, WTSP

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