Dog shoots owner after jumping on bed during gun cleaning accident in Pennsylvania home

A 53-year-old antheral was wounded Tuesday nighttime aft his canine allegedly changeable him with a shotgun wrong his location successful Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Police were called to the location astatine astir 11:15 p.m. for a shooting, according to a study from section quality presumption WFMZ.

Investigators learned the gunfire rang retired aft the antheral placed his shotgun connected a furniture portion cleaning it, leaving an improbable suspect.

The breed of the four-legged fishy has not yet been released. (iStock)

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A furry person successful the location reportedly leaped onto the bed, causing the weapon to spell disconnected and a slug to onslaught the antheral successful the back.

The man, who has not yet been publically identified, was taken to a section infirmary wherever helium underwent country for his injuries.

It is unclear what property and breed the four-legged fishy was.

Authorities said the shotgun was placed connected the furniture anterior to the shooting. (Metro Transit Police/X)

ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF'S DOG ESCAPES UNHARMED AFTER CHEWING ON LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, SPARKING HOUSE FIRE

The incidental comes little than a period aft a North Carolina adjunct occurrence chief's canine chewed connected a lithium-ion battery, sparking a location fire.

Chapel Hill Fire Department Assistant Chief David Sasser's dog, Colton, allegedly "counter-surfed" portion his proprietor was away, getting a clasp of the little than tasty treat.

Colton sparks tiny location occurrence successful Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  (Chapel Hill Fire Department/Facebook)

"Colton is simply a bully boy, but helium counter-surfed portion his humans were distant and got clasp of a instrumentality with a lithium-ion battery," the occurrence section wrote successful a Facebook post.

Colton escaped with lone insignificant fume exposure, though the section noted helium is nary longer trusted to spell crate-less unsupervised.

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Shillington Police Department did not instantly respond to further inquiries from Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital's Bonny Chu contributed to this report.