A man in Houston was shot while he was helping his younger brother bury their family\u2019s recently deceased pet guinea pig in their backyard, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The gunfire rang out around 12:30 a.m. Thursday morning during some type of dispute between neighbors, police said.<\/p>\n
The fight erupted as the brothers were taking time taking time late in the evening to lay their pet guinea pig to rest.<\/p>\n
A man was shot while he was burying his family\u2019s recently deceased guinea pig in their backyard. FOX 26<\/p>\n
The neighbor suddenly pulled a gun on the two and opened fire, striking the man in the torso while his little brother watched on, cops said. <\/p>\n
The victim was brought to a nearby hospital in stable condition. <\/p>\n
The neighboring house where the shots originated was quickly swarmed by police. FOX 26<\/p>\n
The victim was in stable condition after being shot in the torso. FOX 26<\/p>\n
Cops carrying riots shields and heavy-duty artillery swarmed the shooting scene. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear if the pet had anything to do with the dispute, or if the family had a chance to lay it to rest after the shocking attack. <\/p>\n
Contrary to their name, guinea pigs aren\u2019t actually swine, but rodents. <\/p>\n
Several cities across the US, including the Big Apple, have instituted retail bans on the loveable pets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in Houston was shot while he was helping his younger brother bury their family\u2019s recently deceased…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[19883,4345,7926,6449,3677,358,3187,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-71694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-funeral","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-pets","11":"tag-rodents","12":"tag-shootings","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114872301862627046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}