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When Danie Wright moved from Massachusetts to Florida 20 years ago, she knew alligators might be part of the picture.
But she never imagined she’d not only come face to face, but fist to face.
“I was like, ‘Punch, punch, elbow, elbow, kick,’” Wright told NBC10 Boston.
Proudly wearing her Tom Brady jersey, the 53-year-old Brockton native talked about her frightening encounter with an alligator in her backyard in Land O’Lakes.
“I heard this squeal, and then I was pulled,” she said.
Wright was walking her dog, Dax, a 4-month-old Shih Tzu, along a creek when an alligator suddenly snatched her puppy.
“I wasn’t going to listen to my dog get eaten, and see it and hear it,” she said. “I’d end up in a psych ward if I went through that.”
The three of them struggled in the water.
The alligator had grabbed Dax at his air tag, so Wright was able to pull Dax away, but then the gator latched on to Wright’s arm.
“I started punching and elbowing and kicking,” she said. “I have no idea in what order, but I was like, ‘Somehow, you have got to get your arm out of this alligator’s mouth.”
She credits her upbringing in Brockton for her ability to fend off the gator.
“My dad was a Brockton cop,” she said. “He just said,’ Anyone ever gets ahold of you, just fight, fight for your life.’”
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Courtesy Wright’s wounded arm
Eventually, the alligator let go of her arm, giving up after taking a pounding.
Dax wasn’t hurt at all, but Wright was left with multiple lacerations on her arm.
“I could have lost my arm and my dog,” she said.
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Michael Rosenfield
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