Man Punches Shark & Saves Dog: Greg LeNoir Saves Dog From Shark (Video)

WTF? Man punches shark to save his dog? Yep! Greg LeNoir saved his rat terrier, Jake, from becoming a shark’s next meal. Read more and see video below.

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Greg LeNoir, punched a shark that attacked his dog Jake, and saved his life!

Greg LeNoir was swimming on Friday with his 14-pound rat terrier named Jake at a marina, when he saw a shark with its mouth open heading towards them.

LeNoir watched as his dog Jake disappeared under the water while the shark attacked. Greg LeNoir says he yelled and then clenched his fists and began punching the shark.

”I clenched my fists and dove straight in with all my strength, like a battering ram,” LeNoir, 53, told the Miami Herald. “I hit the back of the shark’s neck. It was like hitting concrete.”

The little dog, Jake got away from the shark’s jaws and remarkably was not badly injured.

”Jake’s doing great,” LeNoir’s brother, Phillip, told the Herald. “And I still can’t believe my brother jumped in the water and punched a shark.”

Jake, a 28-month-old rescue dog, unexpectedly encountered the shark, which was about five-feet long. As Jake disappeared under the water, LeNoir conquered his own fear and sprang to action.

Sharks are not uncommon in the marina, which is near the Islamorada Fish Company’s open saltwater pool that attracts large tarpon.

LeNoir, a finish carpenter, said he believes it was either a bull shark or lemon shark after describing the creature to local fishermen and another brother, Louie, a shark tooth collector in Orlando.

LeNoir’s wife of 17 years, Tessalee, said she wasn’t shocked by her husband’s heroics: “People know him as Dr. Dolittle. He’s the one who climbs up a tree to save a possum.”

Lenoir added: ‘We have no children. Jake became our child. When I saw the shark engulf him, I thought, `This can’t be the end.’ ”

The shark let go of Jake, and the dog popped to the surface, frantically swimming the few yards to shore. LeNoir followed, paddling through a red trail of blood from the dog.

At VCA Upper Keys Animal Hospital in Islamorada, veterinarian Suzanne Sigel and emergency on-call assistant Callie Cottrell patched Jake’s wounds.

”Amazingly, he wasn’t critical,” Sigel said. “He’s one lucky dog.”

The shark’s teeth punctured Jake’s skin and some muscle on the dog’s abdomen, chest and back in a pattern that looked like ”an upside down smile,” Sigel said.

Jake also suffered lacerations on his right side and front left leg, with skin hanging like ribbons, LeNoir said.

”The shark put almost all of Jake in his mouth, except for his head and three of his legs,” LeNoir said.

Sigel reexamined Jake Monday and said the pooch is expected to recover.

”He looks great and is recuperating well,” she said. “I was worried he may have inhaled salt water when he was pulled under, but there’s no evidence of infection or pneumonia. He’s healing great.”

Pretty cool story eh? That’s awesome the man punched the crap out of that shark to save his cute little doggie.

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