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FRIENDSHIP, Wis. – It's deer hunting season in Wisconsin, which means only one thing: trouble.
On Sunday, the second day of the annual, money-making deer slaughter, trouble came to a small town in Adams County, which is located about 75 miles NW of Milwaukee.
A 62-year-old, disabled man who was hunting from a vehicle, because every American should have a right to shoot things, spotted an antlerless deer.
Carefully taking aim, he shot at the animal -- except the animal turned out to be a dog.
In some rare good news from these hunts, he missed. In some typically terrible news from these hunts, the bullet whizzed past the dog and struck a woman in the abdomen.
Now if all this isn't tragic enough, consider that the woman who was shot by the man in the vehicle was ... the dog's owner.
She was taking him for a walk.
The 47-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was flown via MedFlight to an area hospital where she is still being treated, according to Wisconsin Department of Resources (DNR) Hunter Education Administrator Lt. Mike Weber.
DNR is still investigating the incident, and no decision has been made about whether the unidentified man will be charged.
During a news conference, Weber implored people to wear blaze orange and fluorescent pink when walking in the woods. That goes for dogs, too.
Mercifully, the gun hunt ends in Wisconsin on Nov. 26. Unfortunately, it looks like it will return next year.