He’d most likely be dead. Rick Fingeret (middle) poses with Walt Rudder and Paula Keegan, the two neighbors who saved him from an April 2024 alligator attack in North Naples. That’s why ...

Fingeret was attacked by an 11-foot alligator while walking his dogs in his gated community. All three survived the ordeal and have become close friends. Rick Fingeret never saw the alligator coming.