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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