- A video showing a dog playing in a creek then eaten by a crocodile underwater emerged online
- The dog was playing at a creek at Isimangaliso Wetlands Park in South Africa when the incident happened
- The footage was recorded by 24-year-old Danielle Davenport, from Cape Town, South Africa
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa – A video showing a pet dog playing in a creek then ruthlessly eaten by a crocodile lurking underwater emerged online.
An article by Times Live published on March 9 said that the dog, which appeared to be an Australian Shepherd, was playing in the water when a crocodile suddenly attacked, snatching the animal in whole.
The pet dog was playing and running in and out of a creek at Isimangaliso Wetlands Park in South Africa when it was eaten by a crocodile. Eyewitnesses were left horrified upon seeing the powerless dog dying on the mouth of the fierce animal.
The video showed the dog to have been teasing hippos and crocodiles in the water when it accidentally stood on the head of a crocodile. The larger animal then leaped out of the water and swallowed the dog.
Corey Charlton mentioned in her article for Mail Online published on March 11 that the footage was recorded by 24-year-old Danielle Davenport, from Cape Town, South Africa.
Davenport, who is a freelance videographer, was shooting a footage at Isimangaliso Wetlands Park for an assignment with Makhulu production Company when she witnessed the attack.
“I was shooting a sunrise scene at the park, it was beautiful, we had the drone out, lots of cameras. I was looking through the long lens when all of a sudden I saw this commotion happening in the water,” Davenport said.
“I saw some kind of animal running in an out of the water tormenting the hippos, soon I realized it was a domestic dog. There were actually two domestic dogs but one was a lot more abrasive than the other. When I saw this I started to realize that something was going to go wrong,” she added.
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The videographer said she knew something bad is going to happen as four or five crocodiles started to move around because of the dogs’ noise.
“I had no control over it, I was more than 500-600 meters away from the dog, we were over a body of water, so I was completely helpless, I did not know what to do,” Davenport explained.
Kyle Cowan said in his article for The Citizen published on March 10 that the videographer was really shocked about what she witnessed that she was traumatized for a couple of days.
“Tragically, the dog ran straight over a croc’s head and got snapped up. I was pretty traumatized for like two days, I did not know what to do with the footage. One of the things that shocked me the most about it was how quickly the dog had disappeared,” she said.
Davenport said she posted the video because he didn’t want the dog’s life to have been lost for nothing. The videographer wanted it to be an educational video for people to be able to understand the risks that are involved with visiting a wild nature reserve.
“I saw the owners come over five minutes after looking for their dog, I couldn’t make them out but I saw two fishermen come over to them so I assume they told them what happened,” she said.
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