Yes, it\u2019s annoying when strange dogs relieve themselves on your property. But one Florida woman decided to shoot a dog with a crossbow after it peed on her car tire. Talk about bringing a nuclear bomb to a knife fight.<\/p>\n
The woman justified her actions by saying that she didn\u2019t actually mean to hit the animal, only to frighten it of her yard. \u201cMy goal was not to hit the dog directly,\u201d Carey Wilson told\u00a0Action News Jax<\/a>. \u201cI was trying to scare it off.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNassauCountyAnimalServices%2Fvideos%2F543842206310876%2F&show_text=true&width=267&t=0 According to Wilson, the lab, then 4 years old, initiated the incident by lunging at her disabled daughter, and supposedly had a history of mischief after killing other animals in her yard. \u201cThe dog doesn\u2019t want to leave, so I grabbed a crossbow, my intentions were not to kill the dog, but to try to get the message across, \u2018Get out the yard,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNassauCountyAnimalServices%2Fposts%2Fpfbid027H9NxPU7N679KLWa2NhxNKun41zAZM48XQMaUJ5RUYz1tQUCXFriz4RuP6JfkJGel&show_text=true&width=500<\/p>\n But animal control disputed this story, noting they\u2019ve never received any calls of complaint from Wilson\u2019s address. Nor did police buy into Wilson\u2019s changing tale. When officers, acting upon an anonymous tip, showed up at Wilson\u2019s door, she\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cbeing tired of lying\u201d and confessed to the shooting.<\/p>\n According to the police report, \u2018the dog was in the yard peeing on her car tire,\u2019 and \u2018was not being aggressive.\u2019 Officers also discovered the crossbow had been purchased in Jacksonville, suggesting pre-meditation, not an accidental shooting like Wilson suggested.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNassauCountyAnimalServices%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0mCdvg76AKaU39rfUfEdUJpu9NPxeFqWZqG5Xaz8rDeqZuFPjaB3Zv7YxMnU8wvLDl&show_text=true&width=500<\/p>\n Miraculously, Unicorn did survive this heinous crime, because the arrow ricocheted off this dog\u2019s skull, leaving the pup with a painful \u2014 but survivable \u2014 flesh wound. However, the medical bills quickly piled up, causing poor Unicorn, who has since been surrendered to\u00a0Nassau County Animal Services\u00a0for treatment, to lose his family on top of everything else he\u2019s been through.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s rough,\u201d former owner Nick Sweat\u00a0said. \u201cWe enjoyed the dog. He\u2019s a good dog, he\u2019s a family dog, wouldn\u2019t hurt anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNassauCountyAnimalServices%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02fZfK66WmMFP4gmcr4hW9rukCPCXHb1bkbA8SGN4aoJvnNmwww8tYiWcw6EzLdHHUl&show_text=true&width=500<\/p>\n Wilson did express some remorse for her heinous actions, although convenient display wasn\u2019t enough to help her evade a felony count of animal cruelty. \u201cIt was extreme,\u201d the cruel woman admitted to\u00a0Action News Jax News. \u201cI wish there was a different outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n Find out more about Unicorn\u2019s story in the video below:<\/p>\n
\nThe arrow hit the lab right in the head, teaching this dog a lesson, and then some. Widely-circulated photos of the injury show an arrow protruding from the lab\u2019s forehead, leading the poor pup to be nicknamed \u201cUnicorn\u201d by rescuers.<\/p>\n