for the cigar aficionados here (and puppy lovers)

[Bill Carey]

a 74 year old guy rescues his puppy from an alligator, goes underwater, and never drops the cigar from his mouth.

HERE (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/23/man-rescues-puppy-from-alligator-without-dropping-cigar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)

[Frederick Skelly]

I saw that. That old boy's got guts! Glad he saved his dog!

[Rob Luter]

This one made my day. Thanks for the link.

[Mike Henderson]

He's lucky the gator wasn't bigger. It could have caused some real damage to him. Of course, a bigger gator would have swallowed the puppy in one gulp.

I lived in Florida for a while. Gators took small dogs on a regular basis. The gator would come into someone's back yard (property that backed to a canal) and the dog would go and bark at the gator. Gators can actually move pretty fast (for a short distance) and they would grab the dog and drag it into the water (and drown the dog).

But you wouldn't want to mess with a full grown gator. The Cajuns in Louisiana will capture big alligators but I expect they know how to do it without getting attacked.

Mike