{"id":116492,"date":"2026-01-13T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116492\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:07:09","slug":"dog-shot-by-officer-after-killing-homeowners-rabbit-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116492\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog shot by officer after killing homeowner\u2019s rabbit in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0January 13, 2026 at 10:57 AM<\/p>\n<p>Dog bit 1 officer prior to shooting, police saylead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GCSQ6TQ3I5GVFFG7YNBAXZ7CLY.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A dog was shot by a police officer Tuesday morning after it killed a Fort Lauderdale homeowner\u2019s rabbit and then turned its attention on responding officers, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/01\/13\/policia-oficial-dispara-contra-perro-tras-matar-al-conejo-de-residente-en-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/01\/13\/policia-oficial-dispara-contra-perro-tras-matar-al-conejo-de-residente-en-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Fort Lauderdale police, the incident occurred in the 2800 block of Southwest Eighth Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the dog \u2013 an American pit-bull terrier \u2013 entered a property in the area and killed the homeowner\u2019s pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When officers arrived at the scene, the dog turned its attention toward the officers, biting one of them, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said an officer then shot the dog, causing the pit-bull to flee the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The dog was found by animal control a few blocks away and is currently under sedation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details about what led to the dog getting loose have been released.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM Updated:\u00a0January 13, 2026 at 10:57 AM Dog bit 1 officer prior to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-116492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}