Warning: Graphic images in video aboveA Florida woman is recovering after an alligator encounter left her bloody and bruised. Gwen Cash told WSVN that she had to fight off an alligator to protect her dog when it was attacked outside her Pembroke Pines home on New Year’s Eve.She said the reptile approached them rapidly.”He kind of turned and, and like, as if he was going for my dog’s throat, and I was trying to put my arm around my dog’s chest, and that’s how I got scratched or whatever, and I’m glad he didn’t close his mouth,” Cash said. She was able to get her rottweiler back inside but was left with nasty injuries to her arm. Cash is now working with a trapper to have the alligator relocated, but she’s concerned about why the reptile was so comfortable approaching to begin with. “The fact that he’s not scared worries me,” she said. “When you start feeding them, they look at you and they think of food and that’s the only thing I can think of as to why he came straight up.”The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is never a good idea to feed gators, as that is how they get comfortable around humans.

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