Dog walks usually end with a plastic bag of poop, not a fistfight with a dinosaur. But in Florida, anything is possible.

Danie Wright, 53, was walking her four-month-old Shih Tzu, Dax, near a creek behind her Land O’Lakes home when a five-foot alligator shot out of the water and latched onto the puppy’s collar. “The next thing I heard was a squeak like my dog,” she told The New York Times. “I turned and looked, and an alligator had him.”

The gator pulled hard enough to drag both dog and owner into the water. Wright managed to toss Dax back to shore, but not before the reptile clamped its jaws on her arm. A former college rugby player, she knew the only option left was to fight. “I started punching, elbowing, kicking, and kneeing, and I was lucky enough to flip him over onto his back,” sh

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