Florida Woman Gets Into Terrifying Fight with Alligator in Effort to Save Her Beloved Dog
There are no lengths that some people will go for their pets. They're like our children! Take Kim Spencer, a woman from south Florida who fought off the impossible to save her precious pet. The dog was almost snapped up by a six-foot alligator. But it was thanks to Spencer's brave actions that her pup is here today.
"Her whole head was inside its mouth,' Spencer recalled to People magazine. The dog mom was walking with her 9-year-old pup Kona on April 1 when the scariest thing imaginable happened.
The two were taking their evening walk when the alligator emerged from a lake nearby and went after Kona. Things moved fast. Before Spencer could think, the alligator had grasped Kona's head between its jaw.There was little time to act. Every second counted. Which is why the dog mom decided to leap into action.
'She's facing it, it's facing her, and it jumped out and got her,' she told the news outlet.
According to NBC South Florida, at one point the alligator started dragging Kona into the water. The gator then had the dog's 'whole front portion, including under her arm,' in its mouth.
'So I jumped on its back and was trying to pry its jaws open,' she explained.
'I stopped thinking and just dove on it, jumped on it and straddled it, as lady-like as that is, and was trying to pry its jaws open,' she added to People.
If that sounds positively terrifying, it was! Spencer admitted that under normal circumstances she was 'always afraid of gators, snakes, you name it.' But when it comes to your pet, those fears fall by the wayside.
Thankfully the woman's quick-thinking managed to save Kona's life. She managed to free Kona and the two got away. Kona had some deep bite wounds but managed to survive, while Spencer needed some stitches. The two were shaken but seemed to be okay.
'We just got lucky because just as quickly as it ran after us, it ran back into the water, and we were out of there,' Spencer recalled.
Despite her injuries, Spencer had zero regrets about rescuing Konda.
'I would do it all over again,' she told WFLA News. 'I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let her be taken away.'
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