Family’s dog Zeus dragged into Florida pond by massive alligator and miraculously comes out alive: ‘I don’t know how he survived’

nypost.com ^ | June 10, 2025 | Daryl Khan

[V_TWIN]

Dog survives gator ping!

[Dr. Franklin]

By Jove! That dog is amazing!

[ConservativeMind]

I wonder if he bit the tongue of the alligator, which got him expelled.

[Clay Moore]

Ping

[dfwgator]

Dog survives gator ping!

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Only because it wasn’t a Bulldog.

[Red Badger]

Gator PING!..................

[FamiliarFace]

My niece lives in Wesley Chapel. There’s a pond behind her house, and yes, she’s had alligators on her front walkway. I’ll send this to her. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a neighbor of hers.

[cnsmom]

Years ago I went to an open House in Ponte Vedra FL. The beautiful house was on a golf course and there was an alligator in the dining room. That was the end of house hunting in FL for me.

[FamiliarFace]

Turns out that my niece lives a few blocks away from the other family. There are 3 ponds in between their houses.

[Red Badger]

We saw a gator, about five foot, in a local park pond over the weekend. The pond is a natural draw for kids so I called the Florida Nuisance Gator hotline. Like an y bureaucracy, it’s located in Tallahassee. The woman who answered after a few minutes of ringing said they had to contact the ‘local’ Fish & Wildlife Commission staff and they would send someone out to look for the gator probably on Monday.

We went back to the pond several times over the weekend but didn’t see the gator again.

We have noticed that the turtle population of that pond had decreased dramatically over the last few months. There used to be hundreds of them of all sizes and different types. They would all swim over to the bridge over the pond like chickens because people feed them bread and stuff. Now there are just a handful left. The gator probably ate them.................

[FamiliarFace]

I wouldn’t be surprised.

[Dr. Franklin]

Years ago I went to an open House in Ponte Vedra FL. The beautiful house was on a golf course and there was an alligator in the dining room. That was the end of house hunting in FL for me.

So what's wrong with eating alligator in the dining room?

[V_TWIN]

Ponte Vedra is literally right down the road from me.

There’s a lot of Hazzards here other than alligators

Florida is the lightning strike state capital of the US......there are sharks, water moccasins, rattle snakes, sinkholes, rip currents, giant roaches, the state bird is the mosquitoe, hurricanes and the tornadoes that hurricanes spawn, and the latest....MALARIA.

And let’s not forget the Senior drivers.......it’s not for everyone.

[FamiliarFace]

LOL, good one!

[FamiliarFace]

I have begun to consider that perhaps I’ll only move back to Florida when I can get there in an urn. If Florida ever really decides to do something about their alligator problem, I’ll consider it, but for now, they just give it lip service. These animals are not endangered anymore. Good intentions and all that, but seriously folks, it needs to be legal to kill an alligator again. At least until they’re under control.

[Fireone]

I have a river in my backyard, there’s gators out there most days. If I want to use the boat, I just shoo them off the dock, they don’t seem to bother anything else.
Trolling with a small dog may produce a different result.

[FamiliarFace]

If I have a coyote in my backyard, I’m allowed by my state to kill it.

Alligators have become a dangerous nuisance. They’re freaking everywhere in Florida.

[Dr. Franklin]

There’s a lot of Hazzards here other than alligators
Florida is the lightning strike state capital of the US......there are sharks, water moccasins, rattle snakes, sinkholes, rip currents, giant roaches, the state bird is the mosquitoe, hurricanes and the tornadoes that hurricanes spawn, and the latest....MALARIA.

You forgot the copperheads and the coral snakes.

[CommerceComet]

If that gator would grab a German Shepherd, what would stop it from grabbing a child?