I suppose you ought to expect this kind of thing if you name your dog “Trigger”.
The Lone Ranger better be careful, and be sure he leaves the safety on.
Oh sure, Trigger says it was an “accident”…
You thinking of Roy Rogers?
I’m always suspicious of these kinds of stories. It seems more likely to me that she leaned her gun against something, it fell over and either tried to catch it, pulling the trigger or it got caught on something and got pressed. She blamed the dog to make herself seem less (but only slightly less) foolish.
Guns are not toys and when you don’t respect them, they can bite.
At point blank range, with a shotgun I bet her foot is a heck of a mess.
Well, it’s possible the Lone Ranger is a werewolf, no one ever said he’s not.
I’m thinking one of those “Dear Penthouse Pets” letters took a strange turn.
A guy I knew in high school managed to shoot himself in the ass with a rifle this way. He knocked it over while trying to climb the tree he leaned it against, and the trigger guard caught on a branch stob.
I hope the hunting magazines pick stories like this up and carry them. Those are the readers especially at risk who need to be mindful of the lesson, although I suppose it could happen to anyone. It seems like it’s common sensical but sometimes folks just get a little lazy wrt gun safety, this at their peril. We all know to keep your weapon unloaded except when you’re actually on the hunt and ready to shoot and to unload as soon as you’re done. But…
A friend of mine from college was a high school teacher who went out duck hunting with one of his students a couple of years ago. I’m not sure exactly what happened other than he put his gun in the the pick-up bed, perhaps to move to another spot, while it was loaded. His beloved dog jumped up there, stepped on the trigger and the gun went off wounding Perry in the leg. His student raced him to the hospital but because of their remote location Perry bled out before they could get there.
It happens, you hunters remember the rules that have been hammered into us. They’re there for a reason.
I think the cat did it and blamed the dog. Has anybody questioned the cat?
First he gets blamed for the farting, then this.
Uh, his ass would be burning if he was a werewolf. He sits on Silver all day.
The CNN version of the article quotes Indiana Conservation Officer Jonathon Boyd directly, instead of paraphrasing, and the difference is instructive:
Why on earth does it matter that the hunter in question is female?
They immediately quote another hunter:
What sex is Deloren Thompson, I wonder?
Gee, why isn’t this in the “positive gun news” thread? 
She should have shot his paw in retaliation.
What, no “Trigger warning”…?
Dog Named ‘Trigger’ Shoots Owner
So please reconsider if you were planning on naming your dog “Butt Rapist,” especially if he’s a largish breed.
A reporter at WaPo did some digging and found 10 dog-shoots-human cases since 2004. He helpfully notes that 4 out of these 10 cases occurred in Florida. Most incidents appear to be hunting-related, but the one in Pensacola could be reasonably construed as self-defense.
That is vampires,* kemosabe’.*
Was Trigger happy though?
It was assumed to work on Werewolves in The Beast Must Die (1974)
I stand corrected. 