{"id":393841,"date":"2026-09-08T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393841\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:12:09","slug":"st-lucie-deputies-dog-shot-after-behaving-aggressively-toward-couple-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393841\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie deputies: Dog shot after behaving aggressively toward couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office said<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/dog-shot-injured-after-allegedly-charging-at-fort-pierce-couple-in-driveway-indian-river-estates-st-lucie-county-dog-shooting-dog-shot-dog-injured-palm-drive-st-lucie-county-sheriffs-office-st-lucie-county-sheriff-animal-shooting-dog-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> two dogs<\/a> were behaving aggressively, leading to one of them being shot.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a man shot and injured one of the dogs after it allegedly charged at him and his wife in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actsretirement.org\/communities\/florida\/indian-river-estates-vero-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Indian River Estates<\/a> near Palm Drive. The sheriff\u2019s office said Monday that, after reviewing available surveillance video and conducting interviews, detectives determined both dogs were acting aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the husband went inside his home, retrieved a firearm and returned outside. When one of the dogs continued behaving aggressively, he fired the gun, striking the dog. The second dog fled the area.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/prime-air-cargo-plane-overruns-runway-catches-fire-at-miami-international-airport-mia-prime-air-prime-air-flight-7598-cargo-plane-plane-crash-runway-overrun-miami-airport-crash-miami-plane-crash-cargo-plane-fire-aircraft-fire-airplane-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5 killed after Amazon cargo plane overruns runway Miami International Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dog\u2019s owner took it to an emergency veterinary hospital, where it was alive and receiving treatment. The sheriff\u2019s office said the dog\u2019s current condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office said two dogs were behaving aggressively, leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-393841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393841","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=393841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}