{"id":112456,"date":"2026-02-12T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112456\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:47:07","slug":"labrador-retriever-named-moose-fatally-shot-with-bb-gun-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112456\/","title":{"rendered":"Labrador retriever named Moose fatally shot with BB gun in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Labrador retriever named &#8220;Moose&#8221; in York County, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot in the mouth with a BB gun, and authorities want to know who pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/content\/dam\/copapwp-pagov\/en\/psp\/documents\/pirrs\/york-press-releases\/j_york_12feb2026_0041.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">Pennsylvania State Police said in a release report<\/a> that the dog&#8217;s owner called law enforcement on Jan. 6 after the dog was shot and killed. The release report said that the incident happened between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Atkins Road in Lower Chanceford Township. Troopers searched the area, but did not find anything.<\/p>\n<p>State police noted that it was not clear if the dog was shot and killed on its owner&#8217;s property or outside of it. It was not immediately clear if there were any suspects or arrests. State police released no description of a shooter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the shooting can contact troopers at the state police barracks in York County. The investigation continues. No other information was released in the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Labrador retriever named &#8220;Moose&#8221; in York County, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot in the mouth with a BB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-112456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}