Police Authourities say an unnamed man from Memphis, Tennessee was accidentally shot by his dog after the pet jumped on his bed and triggered a loaded gun.
The victim was asleep with his partner when their one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, got its paw caught in the trigger guard, firing the weapon. The man suffered a graze wound to his left thigh and was treated at a hospital.
Police classified the incident as an accidental injury.
While gun violence is widespread in the U.S., cases involving animals pulling the trigger are rare but Similar incidents have occurred in Kansas and Iowa in recent years.
Two years ago, a German shepherd dog shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after it stepped on a hunting rifle.
In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.
