Memorable headline: #DOG #SHOOTS #OWNER IN #BEHIND

I can open the back window of a car and a kitchen cabinet, but I'd never shoot you in the butt.

     A 46-year-old man was shot in the rear over the weekend by his dog, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.                                                                                             

      The man from Great Salt Lake in Brigham City, Utah, had been hunting ducks from a boat at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, about 60 miles north of Salt Lake City. As he climbed out of the boat to move decoys in the shallow marsh, his yellow Labrador got excited inside the boat and jumped on a 12-guage shotgun, which then fired, unloading 27 pellets into his owner's behind.

     Kevin Potter, the Box Elder County Sheriff's deputy chief, told the Tribune that the man had left his shotgun in the boat before the dog stepped on it. "One of the hunters was inside the boat with the dog, and the other hunter was in the water setting up decoys," he said. "The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the (decoy setter) in the buttocks."                                    COMMENT:  Next time, when the dog wants to be fed, feed him.   Did the dog have a gun carry permit?  Did the dog intend to shoot his owner in the butt?  Another reason not to hunt birds with a cannon.  And: did the birds laugh at the guy?

“Only my dogs will not betray me.”  Maria Callas