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       An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said on Wednesday.

       The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner when he was shot early on Monday morning, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated in the hospital.

       The dog — a year-old pit bull named Oreo — “got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger”, a police incident report said. It did not specify the type of weapon fired and recorded the incident as “accidental injury”.

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       While gun violence is prolific in the United States, cases of animals shooting humans are rare.

       Two years ago, a German shepherd shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after it stepped on a hunting rifle. In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.

       Local news station Fox 13 Memphis cited the Tennessee victim’s girlfriend, who was not named, as saying she was sleeping when the gun went off.

       “The dog is a playful dog, and he likes to jump around and stuff like that, and it just went off,” she reportedly said.

       Her lesson from the incident: “Keep the safety on or use a trigger lock. “