When Danie Wright moved from Massachusetts to Florida 20 years ago, she knew alligators might be part of the picture.

But she never imagined she'd not only come face to face, but fist to face.

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"I was like, 'Punch, punch, elbow, elbow, kick,'" Wright told NBC10 Boston.

Proudly wearing her Tom Brady jersey, the 53-year-old Brockton native talked about her frightening encounter with an alligator in her backyard in Land O'Lakes.

"I heard this squeal, and then I was pulled," she said.

Wright was walking her dog, Dax, a 4-month-old Shih Tzu, along a creek when an alligator suddenly snatched her puppy.

"I wasn't going to listen to my dog get eaten, and see it and hear it," she said. "I'd end up in a psych ward if I we

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