Familys dog Zeus dragged into Florida pond by massive alligator and miraculously comes out alive: I dont know how he survived

A family dog named Zeus summoned the strength of his namesake and managed to escape the literal jaws of death when an alligator dragged him from his backyard into a nearby pond, the dog’s owners said. “The vet told us the gator had just missed his jugular — it looked like Zeus’s entire head had been in the gator’s mouth.The fact that he made it out alive is nothing short of a miracle,” the family wrote in a GoFundMe post. Even the vet said, “‘I don’t know how he survived,’” the family added.Zeus, a German Shepherd, heard a noise on the night of June 2 and scooted through his doggie door out of his home in Wesley Chapel, Fla., to investigate, the family said. In an instant, an alligator came crashing through their backyard fence, snatched Zeus and dragged him to a pond, they said.“My dad came in frantic.

I’d never seen him like that.He’s a tough guy.

He said, ‘The alligator just took Zeus,’” Zeus’ owner Susan Alkhatib told WFLA.The family watched in horror as Zeus struggled while the alligator thrashed with the German Shepherd’s head in its mouth.Finally, Zeus managed to escape the beast and the alligator swam off. “The alligator had just let go of Zeus,” Alkhatib told WFLA.

“We started yelling at him to come toward us.When he got closer, he got tired.

So we had to kind of go into the pond a little bit to get him.”Susan’s mom waded into the pond and grabbed the battered pet and they rushed him to a veterinarian hospital for an emergency surgery.After the attack, Alkhatib said they don’t feel as safe at home anymore. “We have a doggy door, and Zeus will go in and out of it whenever he wants,” Alkhatib said.“We have it covered right now because of what happened.” The family had taken a video of the scaly culprit earlier in the day when the gator had been lurking along the banks of the water.  The family told WFLA that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has sent out trappers, but s...