I've been waiting for a picture of this dog:
A man took his dog for a walk near his Coral Springs home and ended up prying a 7-foot alligator off of the pooch's head Monday.Michael Rubin took Jasmine, a 6-month-old golden retriever, and his other dog, a border collie named Frisbee, on a run at a construction site near his home in Heron Bay. Rubin thought the area was far from the gators that prowl the nearby Everglades.
During the 10 a.m. walk, Jasmine ran ahead of Rubin and to the edge of a pond on the site. Then he heard a yelp.
Rubin ran to help his dog and saw her head in the mouth of an alligator. He jumped in the muddy water, which reached his neck, he said, and began beating the beast with his fist.
When that didn't help, he grabbed onto his dog as the gator started to roll in the water.
"I thought she was dead," Rubin said after the ordeal. "But at that point I wasn't going to let him have my dog."
No, no, they can't have a Golden. Yorkies are all-you-can-eat.
Both dog and man are doing fine.
UPDATE:
A video and more pics of both Jasmine and the gator here.
sometimes I wished cats barked and liked to play near the canal...
man, close..once they start rolling, its all over with, usually. That guy is pretty lucky. a decent sized bull woulda dropped the dog in a heartbeat...and nailed him instead.
Posted by: csason at May 30, 2006 09:26 PMThe monitor lizards who're invading are cat fans, so there's a blessing.
Yes, he's very lucky. It's amazing the dog survived.