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 Tampa.

Danie Wright said she was walking her 4-month-old puppy, Dax, behind her house when the attack took place. The two were strolling along a stagnant creek covered in water moss, giving perfect cover for the predator, she told Tampa CBS affiliate WTSP .

"I heard a squeal, and I got pulled," Wright said. "The alligator had him by his [collar] and dragged him, and I wasn't gonna let go."

She said the reptile latched onto Dax's collar and began dragging him into the water. That's when Wright went into fight mode.

"I just punched him, punched and punched," she recalled. "I punched him in the eye enough tha

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