A Florida girl and her family’s dog were attacked by an otter that broke into their Lakeland home, according to WFLA. Gwyn Ewert, 17, let her French Bulldog, Scooter, out early Tuesday and then heard fighting on the back porch. So he stumbled in the door and I tried to shut it as fast as possible but then the otter got stuck,” Gwyn Ewert told WFLA. “I snatched it by the tail,” Casina Ewert, the girl’s mother, said. My leg was shaking and there were drips of blood all over the floor,” Gwyn Ewert said.

After reading this, you might want to go check and make sure your garage door is closed. When you leave your garage open in Florida, you never know what might crawl in. A North Port resident found a 7-foot alligator hiding in their garage alongside the driver’s side of their car, according to the North Port Police Department. According to the police department’s Facebook post, the confused gator was relocated to a nearby canal. See ya later, alligator!

NAPLES, Fla. – Two dolphins have been found dead on Florida beaches within a week of each other, suffering from what biologists said are likely bullet or stab wounds. Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission found a dead dolphin on a Naples beach late last week. Within the same week, Emerald Coast Wildlife Experts said they found a dead dolphin with a bullet wound in its left side along Pensacola Beach. Biologists believe cases of cruelty like these can stem from people feeding wild dolphins. Harassing, hunting, killing and feeding wild dolphins, or attempting to do so, is illegal under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.