Guns don't kill people, dogs do!
In twisted turn, dog shoots man during hunting trip
By Associated Press, 10/28/02
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. -- Pheasant season took an ugly turn for Michael Murray last weekend when he was shot by Sonny, his year-old English setter pup.
The puppy knew something was very wrong when Murray dropped to the ground with blood spurting from his ankle. "Sonny just laid by my side," Murray said. "He knew something was bad."
Murray, 42, was hunting near the North Dakota border on the first day of the season. He said he was lining up a photo of the seven birds his hunting party shot in the first hour.
A loaded 12-gauge shotgun lay on the ground near the frisky dog.
"He stepped on the gun and it went off," Murray said. "At first I didn't know what happened. I got that blinding flash of pain and I sat down. Blood was pumping out of my ankle."
His brother-in-law quickly tied a tourniquet above Murray's right boot. After 15 stitches and a night in the hospital, Murray is on course for a complete recovery.
"It was the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me," he said. "I've been hunting for 30 years, and we have never had a misfire."
Murray admits there is a certain amount of notoriety that goes along with getting shot by your dog.
"That's the hard part, talking to people, because you feel like such a fool," he said
Last edited by Cleef; 10-28-2002 at 09:29 PM.
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