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Police expect a dog that charged its human neighbor in Capitol Beach to survive after it sustained a gunshot wound Monday evening.

Lincoln police Capt. Michon Morrow said the dog, a Labrador-pitbull mix, jumped its owner’s fence into the backyard of a neighbor on Windsor Drive in the Capitol Beach area.

Residents said the dog barked, growled and salivated as it tried to get into the house through the dog door, police reported.

At some point, a man inside the house got the dog away from the door and ended up getting himself cornered in the yard as the dog closed in on him, Morrow said.

The man fired his handgun at the charging dog when it was three feet away. He hit it in the head.

Animal Control took the dog to a veterinary hospital.

No citations have been issued.

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