{"id":192688,"date":"2026-03-15T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192688\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:22:07","slug":"florida-man-allegedly-kills-dog-with-chair-after-she-entered-forbidden-room-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192688\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man allegedly kills dog with chair after she entered forbidden room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A Florida man faces felony charges after deputies say he brutally killed a 7-year-old Chihuahua for entering a bedroom where she wasn\u2019t allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinellassheriff.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> say they responded to a home on the 5200 block of 78th Street North in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg<\/a> for a domestic disturbance just before 3 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they allegedly found a deceased 7-year-old Chihuahua named Sheba outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/honeymoon-snake-bite-leaves-florida-man-with-life-threatening-lung-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Honeymoon cottonmouth bite leaves Florida man with life-threatening lung disease<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation revealed that 35-year-old Christopher Howard kicked the dog across the room because she was not allowed in his room.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said that after kicking her, he grabbed her by the neck, threw her toward a doorway, struck her with a chair, and then picked her up again before dropping her outside.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found probable cause to book Howard for a felony count of cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A Florida man faces felony charges after deputies say he brutally killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-192688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}