{"id":242109,"date":"2026-04-22T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:59:20","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-dog-shot-while-on-duty-recovers-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242109\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police dog shot while on duty recovers after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sagen Woolery on FLPD K-9 Appie: \u2018He is expected to make a full recovery\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Nearly four days after suffering a gunshot wound while on duty with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois continued his recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The police dog named Appie remained under veterinary care on Wednesday afternoon after undergoing surgery to repair a broken bone on Tuesday in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe is expected to make a full recovery,\u201d Dr. Sagen Woolery, the emergency medicine vet caring for Appie, told Local 10 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Woolery said luck was on Appie\u2019s side since the bullet that wounded him on Saturday night could have caused more damage than it did. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are excited to help him get back on his feet and back working again,\u201d Woolery said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, police officers identified the burglary suspect accused of shooting Appie in Lauderdale Manors as Christian Q. Bouie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Appie\u2019s K9 colleague helped police officers arrest Bouie, 30, after the shooting, and Bouie remained at the Broward County Main Jail on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bouie faced four charges: Use of a deadly weapon on a police animal, interfering with law enforcement with violence, possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon, and resisting arrest without violence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related social media post<\/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=\"Roy Ramos\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/a327c0b5-d59c-45a5-a2.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Roy Ramos<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM Dr. Sagen Woolery on FLPD K-9 Appie: \u2018He is expected to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-242109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242109","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=242109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}