Florida woman claims an alligator attacked and ATE her 100-pound pit bull while they were on a morning walk near a pond
- A Florida woman said an alligator attacked and ate her 100-pound pit bull dog
- The shocking incident happened near an Auburndale retention pond Thursday
- Cynthia Robinson, the dog’s owner, claimed the alligator moved so fast that the six-year-old dog named Tank ‘didn’t even stand a chance’
- Florida is home to 1.3 million alligators, which is where most attacks take place
A Florida woman said an alligator attacked and ate her 100-pound dog while they were out for a morning walk at a pond.
Cynthia Robinson told investigators that she was walking her six-year-old pit bull named Tank near a retention pond at about 7am when the shocking incident happened.
She told Spectrum News: ‘He was so fast. He took my dog, and he was gone…Tank didn’t even stand a chance.
A Florida woman said an alligator attacked and ate her 100-pound dog Tank while they were out for a morning walk at a pond. Tank is pictured above as Cynthia Robinson looks into the water the shocking incident happened
‘I wanted to help him, but that gator was huge. I haven’t seen a big gator like that but maybe at Busch Gardens.’
Spectrum News journalist Trevor Pettiford shared an image of Tank and his owner on Twitter as they went for their walk at the retention pond.
A trapper with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was deployed to search for the alligator.
Director Gaye Sharpe said the park has been closed since the shocking incident happened.
Robinson said she decided to speak out because she doesn’t want a similar attack to occur again.
She explained: ‘All I could do was stand there and watch my dog get eat. And I just don’t want it to happen to no one else or a kid or anything.’
The number of alligators harvested or relocated in Florida is steadily increasing, according to a data examined by Naples Daily News of the Florida Wildlife Commission’s Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program.
Director Gaye Sharpe said the park has been closed since the shocking incident happened. An alligator is pictured above in the Everglades, Florida
The number of alligators either born there or relocated jumped from 7,296 in 2014 to 8,929 in 2018, a 22% increase in five years, according to the analysis.
The regions with the most nuisance alligators generally are in Central Florida and along the Gulf Coast, as alligators tend to live in all 67 Florida counties.
Florida is home to around 1.3 million alligators, which is where most alligator attacks take place.
The first fatal alligator attack recorded in the United States occurred in 1973 near Sarasota. Since that time, 23 more deaths have been reported.