This isn’t something you read every day.

A man in Tennessee was shot by his own dog on Monday.

According to Memphis police, a 39-year-old was on his bed when his dog jumped on his bed and got his paw stuck in the man’s gun.

The dog’s paw was stuck on the trigger guard, and he accidentally pulled the trigger, resulting in his owner getting shot in the thigh.

The man was transported to a medical center.

His injury is not considered critical.

The dog that shot its owner, was identified as Oreo, a one-year-old pit bull. A friend of the victim told media that Oreo is very friendly.https://t.co/KW1s8LQVMs

— TheSouthAfrican.com (@TheSAnews) March 13, 2025

Here’s what CBS reported:

A dog managed to fire a gun and wound his owner in an accidental shooting in Memphis on Monday, police said.

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

Police said the victim was grazed in the left thigh. Officers later found a single spent shell casing on the floor. The man was treated on scene and later taken to a medical center for additional aid. His injury was not deemed critical.

The victim’s female friend, who police have not publicly identified, left the scene after the shooting.

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

The dog, a pit bull puppy named Oreo, “jumped on the bed and got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger,” police said.https://t.co/iQHO7gvJ0i

— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) March 12, 2025

Per The Guardian:

Dog bites man is hardly news, but in Tennessee, a dog recently shot a man, according to authorities.

In what is only the latest instance of a kind of accidental shooting that intermittently occurs in the US, Jerald Kirkwood reported to police in Memphis that he and a woman were lying in bed with a firearm when his dog jumped up and inadvertently caused the weapon to discharge.

A bullet grazed the man atop his left thigh, according to the local news station WREG, which cited police. WREG recounted how Kirkwood’s one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, had gotten his paw stuck in the trigger guard of his owner’s gun. Oreo ultimately squeezed the trigger and shot his owner, whom the station and multiple other news outlets identified.

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The woman accompanying Kirkwood and Oreo reportedly left the home where the shooting occurred and took the gun with her while the wounded man was brought to a hospital in non-critical condition.

Memphis’s Fox 13 news station said it later spoke to the woman, who described to the outlet how Oreo “is a playful dog, a

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