A Massachusetts native living in Florida fought off an alligator earlier this month after it snatched her 4-month-old puppy, NBC10 Boston reported .

Brockton native Danie Wright, 53, told the news station she was walking along a creek in her backyard in Land O’Lakes when an alligator grabbed Dax, her 4-month-old Shih Tzu.

The alligator grabbed Dax by his collar, so Wright was soon able to free him from the its clutches, NBC10 Boston reported. But the lizard then bit her arm and latched itself to her.

“My dad was a Brockton cop,” she told the news station. “He just said, ‘Anyone ever gets ahold of you, just fight, fight for your life.’”

Wright fought off the alligator in the water, punching, kicking and elbowing it while trying to wrench her arm out of its mouth, NBC10 Boston reported

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