Great Grandma Kills 12-Foot Alligator that Ate Her Miniature Horse

She's persistent.   Vengeance will be hers.

Cochran had been searching for the alligator for three years, following the disappearance of her miniature horse. She had seen numerous crocodiles on her land since that time but said that none of them were big enough to have eaten the family pet.

She's wily in the ways of both the alligators and the law.

Cochran baited the alligator by putting a Raccoon carcass on a hook. Once the gator was on the hook it was legal to shoot, and Cochran said she was surprised that it only took one shot to kill the predator.

And she's practical.  Waste not, want not.

She said, “One shot in the head and he just went under. Typically they’ll do what they call a death roll, and just roll over and over and over, but he didn’t.”

The 12-foot alligator weighed 580 lbs. Cochran plans to eat the meat and have boots made out of the animal’s hide.