Dog shoots owner in USA - "got stuck"

A pitbull in the USA has shot its sleeping owner, according to police in Memphis, Tennessee.

» Published: March 15 2025

Dog shoots owner in USA - "got stuck"
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The man was lying and sleeping when he suddenly got shot early on Monday. This happened after the dog Oreo jumped up into the owner's bed and somehow managed to fire a loaded firearm.

The one-year-old pitbull "got stuck with its paw in the trigger guard and managed to reach the trigger", according to the police report.

The man escaped with a minor injury to his left thigh.

Despite the USA's extremely high levels of gun violence, it is unusual for animals to shoot people. But it does happen: two years ago, a German Shepherd shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after the dog stepped on a hunting rifle, and in 2018, a dog in Iowa shot a 51-year-old man in the leg.

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