{"id":93426,"date":"2025-03-12T15:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=93426"},"modified":"2025-03-12T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:27:33","slug":"dog-shoots-us-man-in-bed-with-girlfriend-after-paw-gets-stuck-in-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=93426","title":{"rendered":"Dog Shoots US Man In Bed With Girlfriend After Paw Gets Stuck In Trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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 hospital.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It did not specify the type of weapon fired, and recorded the incident as “accidental injury.”<\/p>\n

While gun violence is prolific in the United States, cases of animals shooting humans are rare.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, a German shepherd dog shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after it stepped on a hunting rifle.<\/p>\n

In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.<\/p>\n

Local news station Fox 13 Memphis cited the Tennessee victim’s girlfriend, who was not named, as saying she was sleeping when the gun went off.<\/p>\n

“The dog is a playful dog, and he likes to jump around and stuff like that, and it just went off,” she reportedly said.<\/p>\n

Her lesson from the incident: “Keep the safety on or use a trigger lock.”<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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