Gator grabs dog, man grabs gator On Thursday, a Sarasota County man jumped into a canal behind his house in Nokomis to rescue his chocolate lab after a gator got hold of the dog.

Wells tried to grab the gator, but quickly realized it was a bad idea once he saw how large it was. The alligator who ate Toby was 9-feet, 2-inches long, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

A man and his dog were unexpectedly attacked by an alligator while the two were playing fetch at a local park. Wildlife officials said later the alligator was 9-feet, 2-inches in length.

You could say a Florida woman has now rescued her dog twice — first through adoption and then from an alligator's grip.

The dog was standing up to his elbows in the water until he was snatched by an alligator in the water. "Boom, the water just sort of exploded," Wells said, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

A 12-foot alligator snatched a couple's pet dog that had been taken out for a walk at Riverside Park in Oviedo, Florida. One of the owners reportedly rescued the dog.

An 84-year-old woman was hospitalized with 'significant' injuries after an alligator attacked her while she was walking her dog in a Florida neighborhood on Sept. 5, according to the Florida Fish ...

A woman was attacked by an alligator while swimming in waist-deep water with her boyfriend and dog in Florida, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Office.