Police are assuring Auckland's Torbay community there isn't a dog shooter on the loose.
A woman was walking her dog at Deep Creek Reserve around 7pm on Thursday when it was fatally injured in the chest.
Louise Lumsden posted a picture on a Facebook community page, alleging the animal was shot by a BB gun while he was fetching a stick.
But police say there were no eyewitnesses to the alleged shooting, and no projectile was seen in the dog's x-ray.
"He was only 1-year-old and the best dog ever," she posted.
"Somebody with a BB gun or something similar shot him from the bushes while he was chasing a stick.
"We are gutted and I have two absolutely devastated kids."
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