Editor’s note: Bill Kearney, who covers the environment for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, headed out to the Everglades, where he experienced a python hunt … of the canine kind. I’m on my hands and ...

She was looking for her lunch, he wanted to live another day. A python caught a dog in a field. She didn’t release her hold for the world. But this pup would turn out to be a fierce adversary.