The tranq gun has a decent range, but we recommend that you only use it when you have a clear shot. Also read: How to use the rubber duck in REPO There are only three darts in the chamber, and it ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In order for an animal tranquilizer gun to work, it has to fire darts at a rather particular speed. Too slow, and the dart bounces off the animal without injecting the sedative.

Using a tranquilizer dart gun that looked like an assault rifle, a volunteer veterinarian drew a bead on a wire-haired terrier mix named Scrim. The dog had been astray in Mid-City since it fled ...

In the movies, when an animal gets shot with a tranquilizer dart, it succumbs quickly. That’s not how it goes with Scrim, the Crescent City’s celebrated escape-artist dog. When Scrim was stung ...

Close enough to raise the dart gun — which, considering Scrim’s resistance to sleep drugs, she has vowed to do only in an isolated space. ... So did tranquilizer darts.

On the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 23, Cheramie received a call that the dog had been spotted in a fenced parking lot on Conti Street. Accompanied by three members of her “Scrim Recovery team,” ...

In the movies, when an animal gets shot with a tranquilizer dart, it succumbs quickly. That’s not how it goes with Scrim, the Crescent City’s celebrated escape-artist dog. When Scrim was stung ...