Queens pup cheats death after being shot by stray bullet in its own home: A very good dog

A Queens pup cheated death after being shot in the rump by a stray bullet while lounging in the safety of her home — and cops think the bullet was fired by a teen playing around with handguns next door.Arya, a 6-year-old Pomeranian and Husky mix — a “Pomsky” — was struck in hind the leg around 1 a.m.Sunday morning after a wayward bullet crashed through her family’s living room window in Howard Beach.The bullet pierced through Arya’s groin and nicked her colon, according to police, a near miss that has left her still unable to walk after surgery Monday.“She’s a very good dog —she doesn’t bark.

Even when she was shot she was quiet,” Arya’s owner, 67-year-old Al Murena, told The Post.The Murenas were home Sunday when they heard a crash in their living room, but when they went to investigate could find no damage — only Arya whimpering quietly on the couch.“When I started wiping her leg all the blood was coming out but we didn’t know she got shot,” Murena said, explaining they were baffled when they took her the vet and were asked if the wound was from a bullet.“We don’t even own a gun.We thought she got cut,” he said.The next morning his wife a found bullet hole in a window when she opened the shades, and the family called the police.Investigators spotted two bullet holes in the wall of the home behind the Murenas’, and interviewed a resident of the house who said her son had recently fled the home, according to cops.She had allegedly found a pair of handguns in the house after her son took off, and in a panic hid them in her kitchen freezer, police said.Her son, 18-year-old Joshua Marte, was later apprehended.“He made a spontaneous utterance, ‘I didn’t mean to hurt anybody,'” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said in a briefing with reporters.Arya is expected to survive, but her road to recovery is just beginning.“She’s doing alright.

She’s a little mushy.She’s doing OK,” Murena said, adding the pooch w...