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Lab Mix Sacrifices Himself To Gator

Dog Sacrifices Himself To Save His Owner From An Alligator

Cindy Hernandez's was playing fetch with her lab-chow mix dog Bob at her dock in Tampa, Florida when she decided to take a dip and cool off from the hot summer day.

Hernandez says she knew she was in trouble the instant she saw the gator: "I heard a sound. It sounded like a boat cutting through the water. And I looked back toward my left, and this alligator literally was out of the water. His body was just above the water. He was moving so fast, he was cutting the water, making a sound. The only thing I could think of was to try to distract him. So I started smacking the water and I started screaming. And he just kept coming. And he wouldn't stop."

This is when Bob dropped his toy and came up behind me, he got right in front of me, just before the gator got to me. The alligator took Bob down right in front of me and rolled over one time, it happened that fast. Hernandez says it literally only took a few seconds and Bob was gone but he had saved her life.

Hernandez said, "I got out of the water, got on to the dock and just watched the water waiting for Bob to surface. The gator came up about five minutes later right at the exact spot he went down, with Bob in his mouth, and he just stared at me."

Hernandez says she called the gator patrol and when they actually went out after the gator if came after them. They threw a line in, and had the gator within 15 minutes. Authorities put the gator down thereafter.

Hernandez says she'll never swim there again: "My life has been changed. This was my paradise, my sanctuary, that's all changed."