Here's the latest update on this puppy that I just read in the Pensacola News Journal (the poor pup had to go through Ivan right after almost getting shot... do dogs have 9 lives too??).
Barb
Trigger the dog loses two brothers to canine virus
Troy Moon, Pensacola News Journal
Remember Trigger, the avenging puppy who shot his owner as the man was about to turn the same gun on him and his three siblings?
Trigger survived Hurricane Ivan and is faring well at the Escambia County Animal Shelter with a sister and mother, Sadie. But two of Trigger’s brothers died Sunday of parvovirus, a viral disease that usually affects puppies, said shelter director Bruce Rova.
Rova said Trigger’s dead siblings caught the disease from a litter of puppies left at the shelter just days before Hurricane Ivan hit early Thursday morning.
Trigger attracted national attention earlier this month after he saved himself and his siblings from being killed by Jerry Bradford of Bratt. Bradford planned to shoot the seven shepherd-mix puppies because he couldn’t control them and keep them from neighbors’ yards. He shot three puppies and buried them. The others survived because 12-pound Trigger, wriggling in Bradford’s arms, yanked the trigger of the gun with his paw, sending a bullet into Bradford’s wrist.
National news outlets from across the world followed the dog-shoots-owner story. So did Pensacola, until Ivan.
Hundreds of people from across the county inquired about adopting Trigger and his siblings. (Trigger was named by shelter staff. Remington, Winchester and Colt were chosen for Trigger’s siblings, but the names hadn’t yet been distributed among the dogs.)The adoptions couldn’t go forward without clearance from the state attorney’s office, which might need the dogs as evidence. That was supposed to happen last week. Then, Ivan hit and most governmental action in Escambia County ceased. The clearance never came.
On Sunday, Rova sounded hopeful he would hear from the state attorney’s office in the coming days and Trigger and his sister and mother could have a good home.
posted by Pensacola News Journal Storm Team at 8:12 PM
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