BRIGHAM CITY -- Perhaps the dog wanted to wield the gun instead of just chase the ducks Sunday morning, when it shot its master in the butt.
A 46-year-old Brigham City man was duck hunting at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge when he shot a bird at 8:30 a.m., Brigham City Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter said.
As he got into the water to retrieve his quarry, he laid his shotgun across the canoe.
The hunter waded a few feet away as the dog got back into the boat.
"I think the dog was either jumping or stepping into the canoe, and it must have somehow gotten into the trigger," Potter said.
However it happened, the hunter got a load of birdshot in the buttocks.
The hunter got back in the canoe and called 911. An ambulance transported him to Brigham City Community Hospital.
Doctors had to pull pellets from his posterior.
Potter said the hunter was in OK condition.
This is the first incident of a dog shooting a man in Box Elder County that Potter said he knows of.
"It's a new one for me."
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