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Music From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan Cal Cal.

Here's Cal.

A black lab in North Carolina is lucky to be alive after an alligator tried to drag him to the

bottom of a pond and eat him. The dog's owner, a man named Bonner Herring, told local media

that he was out at his family's 114 acre property tending to a garden when he heard his dog scream.

The dog's name is Strike, but in this case, it'd be more accurate to call him struck.

He'd been nosing around a nearby pond and the gator had seized the opportunity as well as

Strike's right leg. By the time Herring arrived at the pond, Strike was 20 feet offshore and quickly running out of

energy. I'm sorry to say there are dog owners out there who wouldn't risk being eaten by a gator

in that situation, but Herring didn't one of them. He bounded in the water, got a hold of his dog,

and pulled as hard as he could. The gator put up some resistance, but quickly decided that the

canine cuisine wasn't

worth the trouble. He released strike, and Herring was able to get him to shore and to a vet. The poor

puppy had broken his right femur in three places to go along with internal bleeding and puncture

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