NYT: Blackwater shot our dog.

First Vick in his dogfighting case, then Huckabuck's son dog hanging incident and now this...

Thinkprogress:

Reuters reports that the “U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards — this time of the New York Times’s dog.” The Times’ Baghdad bureau staff said that their office dog, Hentish, was shot by Blackwater bodyguards just prior to a visit by a U.S. diplomat:

Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said the dog had attacked one of Blackwater’s bomb-sniffer dogs while a security team was sweeping the compound for explosives.

“The K-9 handler made several unsuccessful attempts to get the dog to retreat, including placing himself between the dogs. When those efforts failed, the K-9 handler unfortunately was forced to use a pistol to protect the company’s K-9 and himself,” she said in an e-mail to Reuters.

State Department investigators have made two follow-up visits to the Times compound to investigate the shooting of Hentish.