statement posted on X<\/a>. When the bag hit the ground, a white poodle walked out. <\/p>\nThe incident occurred just after 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 12. The owner of the veterinary clinic arrived at work at 6:30 a.m. and found the dog, which was \u201cextremely malnourished,\u201d infested with fleas and missing a tooth, Spitzer said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis poor dog was subjected to unimaginable suffering by someone who was supposed to care for her. Only the truly depraved would make the decision to abuse an animal who has no way to protect itself and then throw it away like a piece of trash,\u201d Spitzer said in the statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe abuse of any defenseless animal will not be tolerated and those who engage in violence against animals will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
OC Animal Care is caring for the dog, the statement said. <\/p>\n
Thompson was charged with animal cruelty and animal abuse and is being held in Orange County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail, the statement said. If convicted, she faces up to three years in jail. She is due in court Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have arrested a 30-year-old woman accused of throwing a malnourished poodle over a fence behind an Anaheim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2640,14048,163,165,164,42546,1592,10479,35388,2899,18025,42544,42545,3025,2429,2034,42547,1557],"class_list":["post-72699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-a-m","tag-abuse","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-veterinary-clinic","tag-animal","tag-atty","tag-bag","tag-dog","tag-fence","tag-malnourished-poodle","tag-orange-county-dist","tag-statement","tag-thursday","tag-todd-spitzer","tag-vet-clinic","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}