A Fort Lauderdale Police officer shot a dog that bit him after it killed a homeowner’s pet rabbit on Tuesday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n
The incident began around 7:40 a.m. when officers responded to the 2800 block of Southwest 8th Street for an animal complaint, Fort Lauderdale Police officials said.<\/p>\n
Police said a resident had called for help after a large dog entered their home and killed a pet rabbit then tried to attack the homeowner.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they encountered the dog outside the home with the dead rabbit still in its mouth, police said.<\/p>\n
The dog dropped the rabbit and attacked an officer, biting him on the forearm before the officer opened fire, hitting the dog, police said.<\/p>\n
The injured dog fled but was found with help from Broward County Animal Control, who took custody of the dog.<\/p>\n
Officials said the officer suffered minor, non-life threatening injuries and was treated at Broward General Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Police said they didn’t have information on the dog’s owner but said the incident was being investigated by the department’s Animal Crimes Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Lauderdale Police officer shot a dog that bit him after it killed a homeowner’s pet rabbit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-116507","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\/116507","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=116507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}