[nickcarraway]

Ping

[trumandogz]

The dog’s name was Bait.

[skr]

Poor woman. May God bring her comfort and replace the last memory with all the good ones they shared.

[Jonty30]

Feel sorry for the woman and dog, but at least the dog didn’t suffer too much.

But she was near a Florida swamp and should have been aware of the possibility...

[Vendome]

That thing would be wallets, a brief case and a couple of pairs of shoes.

I’d put his head on a fence post next to the water to warn the others.

[Jonty30]

When I read this story about an alligator eating a weiner dog, I can’t help but think of Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner.

[Arlis]

Just a bit larger than Alberta that we “borrowed” in ‘65 in northern Indiana and forever tagged me with the nickname, “Gatornapper”.......thanks to the Indianapolis Star newspaper.....AND Walter Cronkite/CBS, Huntley-Brinkley/NBC evening news......

I’d post copies of the newspaper articles, but then the “O” spies would know who I really am.......

[count-your-change]

After killing the gator the trapper should have asked the woman if she wanted her dog back. Or maybe cheered her up a bit with a joke:
How is your dog like a train? He got his own “chew-chew”! Chew-chew...choo-choo? Get it? Not good? O.K.,
What was the dog's name? GatorAde!

[Daffynition]

Shoot him Elizabeth!!!

[dfwgator]

I thought the only dogs Gators like to eat are Bulldogs.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I’d declare open season on alligators. Let people do what they will with them - I’m not aware that they serve any particularly useful function other than that of becoming wallets. Do they keep any other species in check (besides dogs that is?)

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[mbynack]

Anybody who allows their dog to walk within 20 feed of a lake or canal in Florida is an idiot. The dog doesn’t know any better. The gator is just doing what’s natural. You expect the pet owner to to be more intelligent than the dog or gator.

[dervish]

At least the dog didn’t suffer.

[AnyStreetFL]

This is my backyard. The water levels are so low, the gators are swimming below the gates, right from the Everglades.

[Shimmer1]

Duque still couldn’t talk about the incident Friday and “cried when asked about what happened to her dog over the phone.”

Those damn reporters called her and asked “what happened to your dog” DUH Ghouls. Of course she cried.

[ZULU]

“the other without”

Shouldn’t walk a dog off lead in dangerous areas.

A tragedy which was avoidable. Too bad, Weimaraners are great dogs. Alligators make great luggage. On the other hand, they also eat cottonmouths.

[bayouranger]

Saw a guy’s yellow lab eaten by a very large gator during duck season many years ago.

Something that I’ll never forget either. Oh, days later the owner sank the gator.

[Emperor Palpatine]

The ONLY thing alligators are good for are SHOES, BELTS, and LUGGAGE!

[PistolPaknMama]

Why was the alligator killed for doing what alligators do? The woman had the dog off the leash knowing she lives in alligator country. It had to be horrific for the woman to watch her dog die, but she’s a moron, and the alligator and her innocent dog paid for her stupidity. Killing the alligator was double stupidity for whoever made that call.