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KENOSHA COUNTY —A dog and a cat were shot in separate incidents in Kenosha County recently.

In the dog incident, a man told police he shot a neighbor’s dog after it rushed into his yard and attacked his Labrador retriever.

Pleasant Prairie Police were called to investigate the incident on April 16. According to the police report, a resident of the 11100 block of Third Avenue reported his neighbor had shot his dog. The neighbor also called police.

According to the police report, the neighbor, a 31-year-old man, said he was doing yard work at his home on Fourth Avenue with his own dog in the yard with him.

While they were outside, he said, two dogs rushed into his yard and attacked his Labrador. When he tried to intervene, he told police, according to the report, one of the dogs turned on him and he shot it with the handgun he was carrying.

The two dogs then ran from his yard.

Evidence at the scene, including a bullet hole in a fence and a shell casing found in the yard, supported the man’s story, police said.

According to the report, the Labrador had a large bite wound near its tail.