Dog shoots owner after jumping on bed during gun cleaning accident in Pennsylvania home

A -year-old man was wounded Tuesday night after his dog allegedly shot him with a shotgun inside his home in Berks County Pennsylvania Police were called to the home at about p m for a shooting according to a account from local news station WFMZ Investigators learned the gunfire rang out after the man placed his shotgun on a bed while cleaning it leaving an unlikely suspect INDIANA CLEANING LADY FATALLY SHOT AFTER SHOWING UP AT WRONG HOME POLICEA furry friend in the home reportedly leaped onto the bed causing the gun to go off and a bullet to strike the man in the back The man who has not yet been publicly identified was taken to a local hospital where he underwent surgery for his injuries It is unclear what age and breed the four-legged suspect was ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF'S DOG ESCAPES UNHARMED AFTER CHEWING ON LITHIUM-ION BATTERY SPARKING HOUSE FIREThe episode comes less than a month after a North Carolina assistant fire chief's dog chewed on a lithium-ion battery sparking a house fire Chapel Hill Fire Department Assistant Chief David Sasser's dog Colton allegedly counter-surfed while his owner was away getting a hold of the less than tasty treat Colton is a good boy but he counter-surfed while his humans were away and got hold of a device with a lithium-ion battery the fire department wrote in a Facebook post Colton escaped with only minor smoke exposure though the department noted he is no longer trusted to go crate-less unsupervised Shillington Police Department did not directly respond to additional inquiries from Fox News Digital Fox News Digital's Bonny Chu contributed to this account