An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said Wednesday.
The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner when he was shot early Monday morning, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated in the hospital.
The dog – a year-old pit bull named Oreo – “got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger,” a police incident report said.
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It did not specify the type of weapon fired, and recorded the incident as “accidental injury.”
Two years ago, a German shepherd dog shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after it stepped on a hunting rifle.
In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.
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