A Tennessee man was taken to the hospital after he told police his dog shot him in the leg while he was lying in bed with a friend in the early morning on Monday, Memphis Police said in a press release sent to HuffPost.

The man has been lying in bed with a woman when his one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, jumped on the bed getting his paw caught in the trigger guard and shooting the unsuspecting man in the head

In Memphis, Jerald Kirkwood was accidentally shot by his pet dog, Oreo, when the dog jumped onto the bed and discharged a loaded gun. Kirkwood sustained a non-critical injury.

Jerald Kirkwood claimed that his one-year-old pit bull Oreo jumped onto his bed and accidentally triggered the gun.

A man from Memphis, USA was accidentally shot by his own dog while lying in bed with a firearm, local media reported. Jerald Kirkwood told police that his one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, jumped onto the bed and got his paw stuck in the trigger guard of the gun,

A man was shot in the leg while laying in bed with a female friend – and claims his pet dog was the one who pulled the trigger. Jerald Kirkwood, from Memphis, Tennessee, was ‘relaxing/talking’ with an unidentified woman in his bedroom at around 4am on Monday when his dog Oreo decided to jump on the bed.

The man said he was "laying on his bed" with a female friend when his dog accidentally set off the gun's trigger, the Memphis Police Department said.

A Tennessee man claims he was shot in the leg while in bed with a female friend. On top of that, he says his dog is the one who pulled the trigger on the