All dogs know not to bite the hand that feeds them. Using a shotgun to shoot the foot that belongs to the hand that feeds them, however, is a more difficult lesson.
A dog named Trigger, in the cruelest irony, shot its owner in the foot during a hunting expedition on Oct. 24 in northern Indiana. After being treated at two hospitals, the 25-year-old hunter was released.
Authorities say that Allie Carter was hunting waterfowl with her chocolate Labrador retriever Trigger when she laid her 12-gauge shotgun on the ground without putting the safety on.
Trigger stepped on the gun, pulling its trigger and firing a blast into Carter's foot at point-blank range.
Guns don't shoot people, dogs do.