Me too. Evil is about the only thing giving him a 3rd dimension. If they do make him go further, hopefully it'll be for a Heroic Sacrifice…

I would have to go back and watch, but I think Garrett walks off with the rifle. Either way, for Ward to shoot the dog, Buddy would have to loop around to the left, then run back across Ward's line of sight. Going by how hunting dogs work, there's no reason for that to happen, they run out and grab whatever you shot…

Ward doesn't shoot the dog, Garrett does. Ward notes that "the dog runs every time I fire" or something along those lines. He fires the gun in the air, making Buddy run off. The next scene is someone looking through a rifle scope at a side view of the dog and presumably shooting him. All of this leads us to Ward's…