{"id":246302,"date":"2026-04-25T14:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:48:19","slug":"man-walking-his-dog-shoots-four-attacking-dogs-fort-lauderdale-police-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246302\/","title":{"rendered":"Man walking his dog shoots four attacking dogs, Fort Lauderdale police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man walking his dog Friday morning in Fort Lauderdale opened fire on four other dogs that were not leashed and became aggressive toward him and his pet, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shots hit all four dogs, killing two of them, according to police. The two others were taken to a nearby veterinarian hospital. The leashed dog was badly injured by the other animals, and the owner took her to a veterinarian to be treated, said Casey Liening, a police spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of Northeast Seventh Street. The owner of the four dogs was injured by his pets on his hand and went to the hospital for treatment, Liening said, adding he may face fines and \u201carrest for various charges.\u201d He has not been named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police describe the attacking dogs as \u201cmostly large breeds, pit bulls and mastiffs,\u201d and the leashed dog as \u201ca smaller pit bull mix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Liening said there was \u201cat least one prior incident involving these same dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The owner of the leashed dog, who police have not named, won\u2019t likely face charges based on detectives\u2019 preliminary investigation because it appears he was acting in self-defense and in defense of his pet, Liening said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man walking his dog Friday morning in Fort Lauderdale opened fire on four other dogs that were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[108094,1827,249,251,250,108093,108095],"class_list":{"0":"post-246302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-casey-liening","9":"tag-dog","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-police-spokeswoman","14":"tag-veterinarian-hospital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246302","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=246302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}