A dog owner in Tennessee claims he was shot in the leg by his pet while lying in bed with a female companion, according to a press release from the Memphis Police Department shared with PEOPLE.

A man was shot in the leg while laying in bed with a female friend – and claims his pet dog was the one who pulled the trigger. Jerald Kirkwood, from Memphis, Tennessee, was ‘relaxing/talking’ with an unidentified woman in his bedroom at around 4am on Monday when his dog Oreo decided to jump on the bed.

A man allegedly told officers that his dog shot him while he was laying in his bed "relaxing" and "talking" with his female friend on Sunday.

This dirty dog was one man’s best fiend. A Memphis man was shot in the leg while canoodling in bed with a lady friend — and he claims his pet pooch is the one who pulled the trigger. The unidentified man was lying in bed with a female friend “relaxing/talking” around 4 a.