for the cigar aficionados here (and puppy lovers)

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

HERE

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

This one made my day. Thanks for the link.

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