Did Lauren Boebert Shoot and Kill Her Neighbor’s Dog?

In October 2022, a widely shared Facebook post accused Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of shooting and killing a neighbor’s dog in Garfield County, Colorado, a previous month. The post, which was deleted after it gained attention from media outlets (including Snopes), claimed that Boebert shot and killed the dog, a husky named Omega, on Aug. 17 after it supposedly attacked the congresswoman’s goats.

It was true that a dog was fatally shot around Boebert’s property, according to her office and the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office. However, according to both groups, it was a different neighbor — not Boebert — who shot the dog. The sheriff’s office emailed us this statement:

In reference to the August 17, 2022 shooting of a dog at or near the Boebert residence in Silt, CO, [a] summons was issued for the shooting, (not to Representative Lauren Boebert as she was not the shooter). That case was turned-over to the District Attorney’s Office for further examination and determination of final charges. We do not know the disposition of that case.