VIDEO: Cop Runs Over 21-Yr-Old Blind & Deaf Dog, Shoots It; 'Mistook For Coyote'

Police officers looking for a coyote in Collingwood, Ont., instead killed a resident's 21-year-old dog, running over the animal twice before shooting it.

The incident was caught on video Monday night.

Residents had alerted authorities that there was a "coyote" in the neighbourhood. When OPP arrived, the dog approached the officers' cruiser.

"It just kept hanging around and it wasn't afraid of the vehicle at all, of anything. It was just lurking around looking at the vehicle," resident Kelly O'Neill told CTV Barrie on Tuesday. "It wasn't afraid at all."

Instead of capturing the animal, O'Neill said the police cruiser ran over it several times. One of the officers then got out of the car and shot it.

On Wednesday morning, OPP confirmed the animal was a dog, not a coyote.

A resident of the neighbourhood told CTV Barrie that the animal was his dog, which he said looks like a coyote.

"She is 21 years old. Being blind and deaf, she doesn't respond too well to anything really, so I can see how they mixed the dog up with a coyote because she looks like one," Scott Klinck said.

Klinck said his dog got loose after a windstorm blew his gate open.