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To: Apercu

I don't mean to be rude, but that story sounds fishy


70 posted on 10/05/2005 12:21:35 PM PDT by mel
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To: mel
I read this a couple of years ago - don't remember where. I have 2 mini dachshunds and it would not surprise me. They have no fear. They were originally bred to hunt badgers.
83 posted on 10/05/2005 12:38:41 PM PDT by Apercu ("Res ipsa loquitur")
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FYI...found numerous references to this story....they all cite the Sun Magazine of Boca Raton, FL....but cannot find a link to the actual 1995 story

Dachsie Shows Gator Who is Boss!

Sun Magazine of Boca Raton, Florida, on 1/10/95

A huge alligator swallowed a plucky dachshund who promptly chewed her way out. The eleven foot gator was found floating belly up in the pond the next day, and Daisy, who's obviously a lot tougher than she looks, was back pawing at her family's door.

"The dog didn't have a mark on her, since the gator gulped her down whole. At first I really thought she was a ghost," says Melanie Nelson, whose son, Mark, nine , saw the gator snatch Daisy as she chased a ball next to the pond behind their house in the swampy country near Everglades City. But Daisy went straight to her dish and the family knew they had their pet back. "We'd lost dogs to gators before" Melanie recalls. "It's a hazard of living out here. But this is the first one who has ever come back."

She took Daisy to her vet, who explained that if any dog could chew its way out of an alligator, it would be a dachshund. "They are a lot feister than they look," says Nelson. "The vet says they were bred to go down a hole and kill badgers. Also, Daisy didn't need to make too big of a hole to get out. She's very low to the ground."

91 posted on 10/05/2005 12:56:46 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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