The dog accidentally shoots the owner after being blocked on Paw in the trigger guard, says the police in Memphis

A dog managed to shoot a weapon and injured his owner in an accidental shooting in Memphis Monday, the police said.

The 39 -year -old victim was relaxing and talking to a female friend on his bed when the dog jumped on the bed, the authorities said. The dog’s paw stuck in the trigger’s guard and hit the trigger, unloading the weapon.

The police said the victim was grazed in the left thigh. Subsequently, the officers found a single case spent on the floor. The man was treated on the spot and subsequently taken to a medical center for additional help. His injury was not considered critical.

The victim’s female friend, whom the police did not identify her, left the scene after shooting.

“When the officers asked the victim where the weapon was, he advised that the female friend would take her when she left,” the police said.

A spokesman for the Memphis police department said he has no other information to offer.

CBS News affiliated Wreg He identified the dog as Oreo, a 1 year Pit Bull. A victim’s friend told Wreg that Pit Bull was really friendly and that his friend was fine after shooting.

In recent years there have been several incidents of canine weapons. In 2023, A man was killed During a hunting trip at the weekend in Kansas, when a dog stepped on a rifle and downloaded the weapon.

During one Incident 2017A pheasant hunter in the north-centrar Iowa was accidentally shot and injured when a dog stepped on the triggering guard and the weapon fired.

And in 2018, a New Mexico man told CBS Krqe-TV affiliate that it is shot by his dogA 120 -kilogram Rottweiler mixture called Charlie, while the pair was in the man’s truck. The chicken was caught in the rifle trigger, Krqe reported. The man was shot in the back and had several broken bones to shoot.