It may well have been the sub-sonic rounds. A dogs brain pretty well fills their skull, so its doubtful all three shots would miss the brain.
.22 LRs rounds to the brain have killed untold thousands, upon thousands of animals, hogs, calfs, wounded deer, etc, etc. So I don't think you were wrong in assuming it would cleanly do the job.
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