LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (WSVN) — Alligators are part of life in Florida, and as the owner of a puppy found out, small dogs can be easy prey. So she took matters into her own hands and confronted the predator.

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

But anyone would do it,” said Wright. “Well, we’ve never seen an alligator back here.”

Wright said she had taken Dax behind her house in Land O’ Lakes to walk along a stagnant creek when the gator lunged at her pup and bit his collar.

“I heard a squeal, and I got pulled. So he’s – the alligator had him by his AirTag and drags him,” she said.

As the large reptile dragged Dax into the water, Wright chose to fight back.

“And I just punched and punched and punched, and I punched him in th

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