{"id":99852,"date":"2018-11-05T10:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=99852"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:55:57","slug":"hunt365-dog-shoots-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-dog-shoots-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_99853\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sonny.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-dog-shoots-owner\" title=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99853\" title=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-99853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sonny-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sonny-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sonny-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sonny.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-99853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonny Gilligan and Charlie, a 120-pound Rottweiler mix. (<em>Photo: Mark Gilligan<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dogs may be \u201cman\u2019s best friend,\u201d but not because of their marksmanship.<\/p>\n<p>A 74-year-old man in New Mexico was shot by one of his dogs last week while he and his three canine hunting companions were out pursuing jackrabbits near Las Cruces, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krqe.com\/news\/new-mexico\/dog-shoots-owner-while-hunting-in-southern-new-mexico\/1565192606\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-dog-shoots-owner\" title=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Gilligan told reporters that his father, Sonny, often takes his three dogs, Charlie, Cowboy, and Scooby, on hunting trips in his pickup truck. Sonny lets his dogs eat the rabbits he shoots, and his son says his father has always enjoyed pampering his pooches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe spoils his dogs, you know. He calls them his boys. He&#8217;s very fond of his animals,\u201d Mark said.<\/p>\n<p>On this most recent trip, however, Sonny had left his shotgun in the back seat of his pickup. It\u2019s unclear whether the safety had been switched to \u201cfire,\u201d but the gun was loaded, so when Charlie\u2019s paw got caught on the trigger, the gun sent a round through the front seat and into Sonny\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie got his foot in the trigger of the gun and I leaned forward and he slipped off the seat and caught the trigger\u00a0\u2014 and it shot,\u201d Sonny told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/local\/community\/2018\/10\/30\/dog-shoots-man-hunting-accident-las-cruces\/1824498002\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-dog-shoots-owner\" title=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Cruces Sun News<\/a>. \u201cIt was a freak accident but it&#8217;s true, that&#8217;s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonny was able to call 911 before passing out, and Mark praised the first responders who saved his father\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was done, he would&#8217;ve died. I can&#8217;t say enough about the Sheriff&#8217;s deputies, because without them my dad was dead,\u201d Mark said.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/kitten-fights-two-deer-and-wins-caught-on-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-dog-shoots-owner\" title=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\">Kitten Fights Two Deer and Wins, Caught on Video<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Sonny echoed his son\u2019s sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very fortunate I could get to my phone,\u201d Gilligan said. \u201cThe DASO (Do\u00f1a Ana County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)\u00a0first-responders saved my life. If they waited 10 more minutes I would\u2019ve died. I lost so much blood. I know I actually passed to the other side just before getting to the hospital but they were able to revive me through CPR and bring me back. I have so much appreciation to the doctors and first-responders who saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonny\u2019s injury left him in critical condition, but even before he was moved out of the intensive care unit, he wanted to know whether or not his dogs would be all right. Mark says when his father heard the animals had been taken to a county shelter, Sonny&#8217;s main concern was getting his dogs out of what he called, \u201cdoggie jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark also pointed out that even though Charlie could have killed his father, Sonny has forgiven his furry friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an accident, although they tease me asking me if he did it on purpose,\u201d Sonny told the Sun News. \u201cTruth is, (Charlie&#8217;s) a big, loving dog and would never hurt anybody on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs may be \u201cman\u2019s best friend,\u201d but not because of their marksmanship. A 74-year-old man in New Mexico was shot by one of his dogs last week while he and his three canine hunting companions were out pursuing jackrabbits near Las Cruces, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":99853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1273,1217,593,992],"tags":[1276],"featured":[4081],"hunt365":[4089],"class_list":{"0":"post-99852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-huntnews","9":"category-hunt365","10":"category-jordan-michaels","11":"category-specialty-publications","12":"tag-huntnews","13":"featured-row3","14":"hunt365-hunting"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Loaded shotguns, big dogs, and small spaces don&#039;t mix, as one New Mexico hunter discovered the hard way last week while pursuing jackrabbits.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-dog-shoots-owner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dog Shoots Owner While Hunting Jackrabbits in New Mexico\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dogs may be \u201cman\u2019s best friend,\u201d but not because of their marksmanship. 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