LAND O'LAKES, Florida — A Florida woman is recovering after fighting off an alligator that tried to drag her puppy into a backyard creek. It happened last week in Land O'Lakes, just 20 miles north of ...

A Florida woman fought off a five-foot alligator with her bare hands after it attacked her four-month-old puppy. Danie Wright was walking her pup, Dax, behind her Land O’ Lakes home last week when the ...

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 ...

A US woman has lived to tell her tale of bravery and courage after she saved a puppy from a five-foot alligator by battling the reptile. Danie Wright was walking her four-month-old puppy named Dax ...

LAND O'LAKES, Florida (WFOR) -- A Florida woman is recovering after fighting off an alligator that tried to drag her puppy into a backyard creek. It happened last week in Land O'Lakes, just 20 miles ...

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