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Labrador shoots its owner dead on hunting trip
January 09, 2008 09:34am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
AN overexcited dog has accidentally shot and killed its owner on a goose-hunting trip in Texas.
Perry Price, 46, had just shot a goose and went back to his pick-up truck to let his dog out to go find it in the brush.
He leaned over the bed of the truck and lay his shotgun down inside as he unhooked the tailgate, his hunting companion told investigators.
"When the dog got to jumping around it went off," deputy Nacheal Bonin of the Chambers County Sheriff's Department said.
The shotgun pellets went through the truck's tailgate and struck Mr Price, a high school teacher and avid hunter, in the thigh.
His friend rushed Mr Price to a hospital just a few kilometres away but the pellets had severed an artery and Mr Price could not be saved. He was pronounced dead on Saturday night .
"It just caught him in the wrong area. It's a freak accident," Ms Bonin said.
There would be no further investigation because the gun was covered with the labrador's muddy paw prints, she said.
It's not uncommon for hunters to be shot by their dogs.
A pack of hunting dogs shot an Iowa man in the leg as he went to retrieve a fallen pheasant in October.
He had put his gun on the ground to climb a fence and retrieve the fallen bird.
The dogs followed him too closely, stepping on the gun's trigger before he managed to get over the fence.
He was badly injured when 100 to 120 pellets of birdshot hit him square in the left calf but survived.
January 09, 2008 09:34am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
AN overexcited dog has accidentally shot and killed its owner on a goose-hunting trip in Texas.
Perry Price, 46, had just shot a goose and went back to his pick-up truck to let his dog out to go find it in the brush.
He leaned over the bed of the truck and lay his shotgun down inside as he unhooked the tailgate, his hunting companion told investigators.
"When the dog got to jumping around it went off," deputy Nacheal Bonin of the Chambers County Sheriff's Department said.
The shotgun pellets went through the truck's tailgate and struck Mr Price, a high school teacher and avid hunter, in the thigh.
His friend rushed Mr Price to a hospital just a few kilometres away but the pellets had severed an artery and Mr Price could not be saved. He was pronounced dead on Saturday night .
"It just caught him in the wrong area. It's a freak accident," Ms Bonin said.
There would be no further investigation because the gun was covered with the labrador's muddy paw prints, she said.
It's not uncommon for hunters to be shot by their dogs.
A pack of hunting dogs shot an Iowa man in the leg as he went to retrieve a fallen pheasant in October.
He had put his gun on the ground to climb a fence and retrieve the fallen bird.
The dogs followed him too closely, stepping on the gun's trigger before he managed to get over the fence.
He was badly injured when 100 to 120 pellets of birdshot hit him square in the left calf but survived.
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