A Florida woman threw herself into the jaws of an alligator rescuing her dog after the gator lunged out from a lake and grasped the dog’s upper body and head in its mouth.
On Tuesday, Kim Spencer was walking Kona, a 9-year-old rescue dog, when she heard something from a nearby lake, she told FOX 13 in Miami.
“Suddenly, I saw the eyes. I saw it turning itself around, so I started pulling her right away, ‘Kona, let’s go!‘, she said, “but she’s a really strong dog.”
The alligator sprung out of the lake facing Kona and bit her around the shoulders with her whole head inside its mouth. Spencer, who was facing the gator from behind, said she stopped thinking and dove on the gator’s back. She straddled the reptile and pried its jaws open with her bare hands. Her effort worked.
“We just got lucky because just as quickly as it ran after us it went back in the water and I got up and we were out of there.”
Spencer said her coworkers asked her which hand was on which part of the alligator’s jaw but she has no clear memory of that.
Spencer and her husband are empty nesters, and she sees her dog as her “baby” so she didn’t hesitate to put herself in danger.
“Yep, you owe mommy forever,” she turned and said to Kona, who while wearing a cone was laying on a dog bed next to a stuffed alligator during an interview with FOX 13.
Both Spencer and Kona are recovering from stitches. Spencer warned others to be more cautious.
“People say they’re more afraid of us than we are with them. It’s clearly not the case.”
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