Posted on 06/28/2010 11:15:48 PM PDT by Chet 99
June 29, 2010 12:59 AM
JUAN CARLOS FANJUL
BELLE GLADE-- Delanos Brown walked along the canal near his trailer park home looking for any sign of his beloved 1-year-old dog King.
Around 7:30pm Monday, the 100 pound Pit Bull mix was drinking water along the canal when a 13-foot-long Alligator lunged at him, took him by the head, and pulled him under.
"The gator just grabbed him and took him into a drainage pipe where he's been hiding ever since with my dog's body," he said.
Residents who live in the trailer park located at the intersection of Hatcher Road and 17th Street in Belle Glade have complained about nuisance gators before, but this is the first time a pet had been attacked.
An FWC officer responded to the scene, but a trapper isn't expected to respond until Tuesday morning.
Brown says some sort of a fence needs to be erected along the canal to keep gators at bay.
13-foot gator, that is getting up into the salt water crock size.
The gator musta thought the Pitbull was a Georgia bulldog...did not eat em..just kilt em.
Sorry to hear about your loss. ;-)
This may start a new trend, instead of pit bulls people will just get a croc.
There will always be a bigger predator, its evolution.
Either the pit bulls get bigger or they get smarter but for now there will always be something meaner, nastier and most likely bigger.
Geez, this story is like the opening scene of every made-for-Scyfy Channel movie playing this week.
Yeah and after widespread ownership of gators takes hold, some deviant will genetically crossbreed gators and grizzly bears, developing the must have pet of the year 2025.
Who would pay 100 pounds for a pit bull?
LOL
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