Washington: American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said Wednesday.

The man from Memphis, Tennessee, slept next to his female partner when he was shot early Monday morning and escaped with a grazing to his left thigh treated in the hospital.

The dog-a-year-old Pit Bull named Oreo- “got his paw firmly in the trigger protection and ended up hitting the trigger,” says a police incident report.

It did not specify the type of weapon that was fired and recorded the incident as “accidental damage.”

While Pistoli is productive in the United States, cases of animals shooting humans are rare.

Two years ago, however, a German Shepherd shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after it stepped on a hunting rifle.

In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg of his Pit Bull-Labrador Mix.

The local news station Fox 13 Memphis cited Tennessee -victim’s girlfriend, who was not named and as saying she was asleep when the gun went out.

“The dog is a playful dog and he likes to jump around and the like, and it just went off,” she said.

Her lesson from the incident: “Keep security on or use a trigger lock.”