Queensland dog suffers gunshot wounds to the head

A Queensland dog has been left ‘traumatised and swollen’ after its owners found 30 puncture wounds in her head after being shot.

Labrador ‘Lola’, who lives with her owners Kayla Evans and Ben Davey in the Lockyer Valley, was left bloodied and bruised after the ‘sickening’ attack on their property on Thursday.

Ms Evans, who is a practicing veterinary technician, was home sick last week and playing outside with Lola before going back inside and returning a few hours later to find her pooch injured.

At first Ms Evans thought a possum had attacked Lola but after clipping her hair away it became apparent that something more sinister had happened.

‘I took her home that night and I was thinking about it and it didn’t make sense. She didn’t have any scratches on her and the wounds were too disorganised for canine teeth,’ she told Sunshine Coast Daily.

‘I had the sinking feeling it was a shotgun.’

An x-ray confirmed the worst: Lola had been hit by 30 slug pellets which had become embedded into her skin, eyelids and forehead.

Emergency surgery was only able to remove seven of the pellets and Ms Evans is still in talks with a specialist to see how many more can safely be taken out.

Although there is a chance the one-year-old dog could have been chasing another person’s livestock and got into a scuffle the shooter would have had to be only one to three metres away when it happened – making the attack highly personal.

Emergency surgery was only able to remove seven of the pellets and Ms Evans is still in talks with a specialist to see how many more can safely be taken out

Lola also wears a bright pink collar with her owners names and numbers on them so Ms Evans reasons it would have made more sense for the shooter to contact them.

‘We have only lived here about eight months and we have never once had anyone come to us and say the dog was getting out,’ she said.

‘So this is out of the blue without warning which makes it so much harder to deal with.’