Have you tried the white meat?
Posted on 11/05/2010 8:29:02 AM PDT by JoeProBono
TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida man shot at an alligator to free his dog from its jaws.
Tom Martino says he and his Jack Russell terrier Lizabeth were walking along the Hillsborough River in Tampa on Thursday when the alligator wrestled the 15-pound dog into the water.
Martino started shooting into the water around the alligator to scare it into releasing the 9-year-old dog. He performed CPR on the dog until it coughed up water and started breathing again.
Lizabeth is now being treated for alligator bits and lung injuries from being underwater.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper captured the 5- to 6-foot alligator Thursday night.
Martino has a concealed weapons permit.
Kayaks are way too big for ‘gators to see them as food.
All I can say is WOW! She gets attacked by an alligator and comes away with bits of the alligator! Good job, Lizzie!
Have you tried the white meat?
I stopped Kayaking in Florida when a 12 footer surfaced right in front of me and my kayak went right over his back pushing him back under water.
Just the thought of him doing one of those flips they are noted for and I would have been in the water with him. The thought still gives me shivers...
Now I live in Kentucky and no gators to be seen anywhere. I just LOVE it here.
I’m usually out with 2-3 others..that creates a fairly large disturbance in the water, and most gators will shy away..
I think kayaking there is pretty darn sil - oh nevermind.
I much agree.
We occasionally see a gator on Lake Corpus Christi. Hear a lot of random gunfire. I suspect they get shot. Of course, I would never kill a gator out of season (snicker). They’re quite tasty on the barbeque. Friend saw a 12 footer in the river just above the lake. And they do taste like chicken (or rattlesnake).
They taste like chicken with a hint of swamp. They eat pretty much everything on land or in the water.
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LOL
That dog needs some Gatorade to get over its fright.
It’s more like chicken - personally, I found it to be delicious lightly fried.
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