No one finds it interesting that the story goes from interviewing the father to suddenly describing it as "one of the biggest" gators in the county -- who's head & hide is in dad's freezer? So what happened in between dad's arrival and skinning the gator? Did dad kill it with a butter knife?
The original story, not the one slimmed down for Bostonian readers, can be found here at the
Post and Courier.
Apparently dogs get into 'gator trouble every year. Here's another story about a surviving dog named
Bosco...