{"id":11422,"date":"2020-11-23T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2020-11-23T06:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:37:03","slug":"watch-florida-man-saves-puppy-from-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/11\/watch-florida-man-saves-puppy-from-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] Florida Man Saves Puppy From Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>This video is tough to watch &#8211; but it&#8217;s not gory, however if your an animal lover, it may be too tough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>A Florida man valiantly saved his new puppy from the jaws of an alligator. Richard Wilbanks, who&#8217;s 74 years young, was just enjoying the sun when he heard his new puppy, Gunner, crying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>A alligator in the backyard pond at his Florida home had grabbed the dog and pulled it into the water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Richard, who is an avid hunter, reacted quickly, jumped into the pond, and grabbed the alligator and pried its jaw open,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>It was a small alligator by the way &#8211; but still &#8211; the stuff of nightmares!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Gunner,is a three-month-old Cavalier King Charles\u00a0spaniel.\u00a0Richard said he only got a few cuts from the rescue, and the puppy is OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The late October incident was captured on video because Richard participates in a program where residents who live adjacent to wild habitats let the Florida Wildlife Federation put cameras on their land to document animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>By the way the alligator was removed from Richards \u00a0backyard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The highlight was that Richard was able to keep the cigar he was smoking in his mouth while he rescued the little guy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Such a boss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLZWNbudx5s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This video is tough to watch &#8211; but it&#8217;s not gory, however if your an animal lover, it may be too tough. A Florida man valiantly saved his new puppy from the jaws of an alligator. Richard Wilbanks, who&#8217;s 74 years young, was just enjoying the sun when he heard his new puppy, Gunner, crying.","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":11424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 14:36:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/11\/watch-florida-man-saves-puppy-from-alligator\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}