Responding to a potential burglary, a deputy and his fellow officer - a K-9 got caught up in quite a confusing, scary, and slightly peculiar scuffle. Looking back on it, it only gets weirder. It's definitely something that would be hard to repeat, not that anyone would want to.

Burglary Report

On Wednesday afternoon, at around 4 p.m. in Georgetown County, deputies arrived on the scene of a suspected burglary. Among those officers was a K-9 unit, highly trained to hunt down and tackle any potential criminals that attempted to run away or even harm the deputies. However, upon arrival, the dog became distracted by one of the property owner's animals - a cow.

Cow Trouble

The distracted dog went over to investigate this strange animal but ended up sinking its teeth into the cow. Stunned and scared for the cow's safety, the dog's handler had no choice but to use his taser on his own dog in an attempt to deescalate the situation. This didn't go exactly to plan. While it incapacitated the K-9 momentarily, it also spooked the cow which then turned around and delivered a kick to both the deputy and the property owner.

Fortunately, neither the property owner nor the deputy was severely harmed and they managed to walk away with a few minor injuries. That was the end of that bizarre situation but it's definitely one that's going to stick with the responding deputies and the owner of the cow for a long time to come. The burglary itself proved to be unfounded and the investigation was subsequently dropped.

Not your average day as an officer of the law, is it now? The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that both the deputy and property owner that was struck by the cow will make a full recovery from the injuries very shortly. Thankfully no one was hurt in this incident and everyone walked away fairly unscathed. I'm sure the cow isn't a big fan of dogs anymore though!