LAND O’LAKES, Fla. (WTSP) - Alligators are part of life in central Florida, and small dogs are easy prey. But one owner decided to fight back to protect her pup.

Four-month-old Dax probably has no idea his owner, Danie Wright, saved his life last week.

“But we’ve never seen an alligator back here,” Wright said.

She took Dax behind her house in Land O’Lakes and walked along this stagnant creek.

Danie Wright: “I heard a squeal. And I got pulled,” Wright said. “The alligator had him by his air tag and dragged him.”

She said an alligator bit Dax’s collar and dragged him into the water.

Then Wright fought back.

“And I just punched and punched and punched, and I punched him in the eye enough that he kind of let go like he unclamped a little,” Wright said. “And I pulled out, but his teeth

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