--- title: Dog Killed His Owner in a Russian Hunt Gone Awry description: A Russian hunter has died after his hunting dog accidentally hit the trigger on his shotgun as they were preparing for their day out. canonical: https://time.com/5116497/russian-hunt-dog/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-24T17:52:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:02.013Z og:title: A Dog Fatally Shot His Owner in a Russian Hunt Gone Awry og:description: He was an experienced hunter, according to local news og:url: https://time.com/5116497/russian-hunt-dog/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Dog Fatally Shot His Owner in a Russian Hunt Gone Awry twitter:description: He was an experienced hunter, according to local news twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Dog Fatally Shot His Owner in the Stomach on a Hunting Trip Gone Awry  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 24, 2018 5:52 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 24, 2018 5:52 PM UTC In a freak accident, an experienced hunter and dog owner has died in Russia when one of his Estonian hounds accidentally hit the trigger on a shotgun pointed at his abdomen, the [_New York Times_ reports. ](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/world/europe/dog-shoots-man-russia.html) Sixty-four-year-old Sergei Terekhov was out for a hunt in the southern region of Saratov, when the unfortunate incident occurred. He had apparently propped his gun against his knee so that, when one of his hunting hounds jumped out of the truck and brushed against him, the excited dog hit the trigger of the shotgun and lodged a bullet in his abdomen. “A rather experienced hunter has died,” an investigator, Aleksandr Galanin, [told local news](http://saratov.sledcom.ru/news/item/1197106/). “He was sober, he had a firearms license. Everything was in order. It was an accident.” As the _Times_ notes, Terekhov’s apparent Russian [social media profile](https://ok.ru/profile/563272150193) even showcases him with one of his dogs while hunting. And most of the publicly visible posts reflect an interest in animals and animal memes. Estonian hounds, while not internationally recognized as a breed by the [major kennel clubs](https://www.dogbreedinfo.com/estonianhound.htm), are [known to be friendly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%5FHound) canines who love human affection. They look rather like beagles, and are not considered aggressive. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5116497/russian-hunt-dog/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5116497/russian-hunt-dog/"},"headline":"A Dog Fatally Shot His Owner in the Stomach on a Hunting Trip Gone Awry","datePublished":"2018-01-24T17:52:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:02.013Z","description":"A Russian hunter has died after his hunting dog accidentally hit the trigger on his shotgun as they were preparing for their day out.","url":"https://time.com/5116497/russian-hunt-dog/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5116497/russian-hunt-dog/","name":"A Dog Fatally Shot His Owner in the Stomach on a Hunting Trip Gone Awry"}}]}] ```