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‘Jackass’ star apologizes for threatening to shoot puppy in shocking Twitter pic

He’s truly a “Jackass” — or worse, a really sick puppy.

Bam Margera, of MTV and “Jackass” fame, found a new and offensive way to shock, by tweeting a picture of himself threatening to shoot his small dog.

The Pennsylvania resident Margera held what appeared to be a gun at pit bull puppy Penny’s head, with an in-picture caption: “Penny pooped in my bed. Not too fond of that. If it happens again, Penny goes Bye Byes.”

Margera insisted he loves animals and would never actually harm a four-legged pal. The gun used the picture was fake, he insisted.

“I feel like every follower I have on Twitter [ more than 800,000] knows my `Jackass’ joking kind of humor,” Margera said in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer.

Margera said he’s well aware of resident, shocking cases of animal cruelty near his Chester County home.

He posted the controversial puppy picture last Wednesday. A day later, Margera posted a similar photo, this time holding a gun to a friend’s head.

“I think those people need to go down,” said Margera, who also has eight cats to go along with his 8-month-old puppy Penny. “Just hurting another animal is rude, crude, and more.”