Woman fights alligator to save dog

INVERNESS, Fla.- A golf course volunteer teed up with an alligator to save a neighbor’s dog.

“I hear the most god awful piercing scream that I have ever heard in my life,” said Lori Beiswenger.

A 7 and a half foot alligator was chewing Beiswenger’s beloved dog.

“I just was screaming her name, ‘Hope no!'”

Near the sixth hole of the family owned golf course, Point O Woods, no one is hearing Beiswenger’s pleas.

“I jumped in, grabbed the tail and pulled him back and he starting thrashing and rolling her some more.”

Up to her neck in water, she keeps pulling the gator’s tail.

“The third time I did, he turned around and looked at me.”

Beiswinger got out of the water but Hope was still sinking.

Finally someone heard Hope yelping and ran to help.

“I thought it was dead because all I could see was the whites of its eyes,” said Jodie Daniels.

Daniels grabbed a golf club, wading knee deep into the water. Unable to reach Hope, he grabbed a shovel.

“It was quite a shock to pull the dog up and the gator is still attached to the dog,” said Daniels.

Hope suffered from a severed artery.

Beiswinger took off with her dog in the golf cart, using a table cloth a tourniquet.

Hope ended up undergoing three hours of surgery.

As for the gator, trappers were able to capture it and it was later put down.