84-year-old Florida woman bitten by alligator while walking her dog recalls attack
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An 84-year-old woman in southwest Florida was bitten by an alligator this week while walking her dog—and she lived to tell the tale.
An 84-year-old woman in southwest Florida was bitten by an alligator this week while walking her dog—and she lived to tell the tale. Del Boppel told CNN affiliate WBBH she was walking her dog, Queen, on Thursday night near a pond in her North Fort Myers mobile home park when she said she felt eyes upon her and like something was about to happen. “All of a sudden, I had a premonition, I’m telling you,” Boppel said from her hospital bed, according to WBBH. “It was like, ‘uh-uh.’” That bad feeling turned out to be a 7-foot, 3-inch alligator, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed to CNN. The alligator approached Boppel and her Shih Tzu so quickly that she barely had time to react, she recalled. “It was like a torpedo. I didn’t see anything go that fast in my life,” Boppel told WBBH.
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