74-year-old woman fought an alligator to save her dog

74 year old woman He rescued his dog from an alligator by throwing himself with all his weight on the 6-foot-long reptile in a lake in South Florida (United States), local media reported.

The Palm Beach Post spoke with Suzan Marciano the traumatic experience of Burt Aaronson Park, west of Boca Raton, Florida, including He came out with an alligator bite in one hand, but with his golden retriever dog alive and well.

“I threw myself on the alligator with all my weight”, said Marciano, who couldn’t think of a better way to save Nalu.

The woman was walking her dog in this park and sometimes threw a stick at him to bring him back, when Nalu entered the lake. The waters were clear and everything seemed calm until Marciano sees a shadow advancing towards Nalu and his heart stopped.

When Marciano threw himself an oak tree, the alligator let go of the dog it had stuck between its jaws, then he bit her in the middle of the palm of one hand. The dog was operated on because the alligator had sunk its teeth deeply and its owner had to be given stitches for the alligator’s bites, but both saved their lives.

“Providence must be with me,” said Marciano, who spent weeks without going to the scene of the attack, which occurred at the end of August. The wounds healed but Marciano and his dog took a long time to get back to normal. Nalu was calmer and more tired than usual and didn’t want to leave the house, and Suzan suddenly started crying for no apparent reason.

She couldn’t get rid of those two dark eyes, she told the Palm Beach Post. Florida has an estimated healthy and stable alligator population of 1.3 million. of all sizes and is spread over the state’s 67 counties.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, since 1948 there have been more than 20 documented deaths of people due to attacks by these reptiles in this state.

One of the most dramatic cases occurred in 2016 at a hotel in Walt Disney World Park in Orlando (central Florida), where a two-year-old boy, Lane Thomas, was dragged through the water by a alligator while he was with his family. at the edge of an artificial lake.

Alligators are ranked fifth in the ranking of wild animals that have caused the most human deaths in the United States over the past 50 years, behind grizzly bears, sharks, snakes and black bears.