Dog dines on gator that attacked him in Ormond Beach

An Ormond Beach dog attacked by an alligator got a bit of revenge at his welcome home party.“A gator got the first bite, but old Jack’s going to get the last bite. 'Cause I’m going to feed it to him,” Danny Westberry told WESH 2 News.Jack, a 110-pound rottweiler-boxer mix, was attacked by a 9-foot alligator in September. The outlook for the dog did not look good at first.“As far as what I was feeling, I was scared. It was like your own child has been run over by a car or eaten by an alligator,” Westberry said.Jack and Westberry have been back and forth to Jacksonville for surgeries and treatment in order to get Jack back on his feet.The gator that attacked Jack was deemed a nuisance. It was trapped and killed within a day. The trapper promised Westberry a pound of the gator meat. Westberry said he knew exactly what to do with it.On Sunday morning, Jack's friends threw him a welcome home party, complete with cake and fried gator.Westberry said Jack is tired and sore, but he's alive and that's all that matters.“He’ll just be scarred up. But I’ll love him anyway. He loves me and I’m ugly, I’ll love him if he’s ugly,” Westberry said.

An Ormond Beach dog attacked by an alligator got a bit of revenge at his welcome home party.

“A gator got the first bite, but old Jack’s going to get the last bite. 'Cause I’m going to feed it to him,” Danny Westberry told WESH 2 News.


Jack, a 110-pound rottweiler-boxer mix, was attacked by a 9-foot alligator in September. The outlook for the dog did not look good at first.

“As far as what I was feeling, I was scared. It was like your own child has been run over by a car or eaten by an alligator,” Westberry said.

Jack and Westberry have been back and forth to Jacksonville for surgeries and treatment in order to get Jack back on his feet.

The gator that attacked Jack was deemed a nuisance. It was trapped and killed within a day. The trapper promised Westberry a pound of the gator meat. Westberry said he knew exactly what to do with it.

On Sunday morning, Jack's friends threw him a welcome home party, complete with cake and fried gator.

Westberry said Jack is tired and sore, but he's alive and that's all that matters.

“He’ll just be scarred up. But I’ll love him anyway. He loves me and I’m ugly, I’ll love him if he’s ugly,” Westberry said.