On Janine’s Mind

It’s not often that I find newspaper headlines that grab my attention. More often than not, they don’t live up to the stories beneath them. So when I saw a postage stamp-sized article tucked at the bottom of a page headlined: ‘Dog shoots man,’ I immediately stopped what I was doing to read it.

Turns out that a bird hunter was shot in the rear end after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat. The 46-year-old Utah man was duck hunting when he climbed out of his boat to move decoys. The man’s dog inadvertently stepped on his owner’s 12-guage shotgun, causing it to fire 27 pellets of birdshot straight into Potter’s buttocks.