This comes courtesy of our local NBC affiliate WBBH-TV:
It's not often you hear a story of an alligator attacking a dog, and the dog lives to bark another day.
Sophie, a 12-year-old basset hound, is an exception.
She's recuperating nicely at home after a gator clamped her in its mouth last week, forcing a trip to an animal hospital.
David Frame was taking care of Sophie while her family visited Siesta Key last week.
Frame, who was walking Sophie and his own dog, was about 5 feet from a golf course pond in Odessa, Florida when the alligator lunged from the pond, snapped its jaws on the basset hound and tried to drag the dog back to the water.
Amazingly, Sophie managed to escape.
After a night in the animal hospital she was sent home to rest and recover.
"We actually lived in Gainesville when I went to the University of Florida. So she's familiar with gators," said Brian White, Ruth White's husband.
He credits his father-in-law for saving her life.
"He's a lot of the reason why she's still here, and at the same time, she's a tough old dog."
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