The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect threw the dog towards his home’s doorway and hit her with a chair across the neck and back.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Pete man is facing felony animal cruelty charges after deputies say his attack led to his 7-year-old dog’s death.<\/p>\n
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said this happened just before 3 p.m. Saturday when deputies responded to the area of 78th Street North regarding a verbal domestic disturbance.<\/p>\n
When they arrived, they found a 7-year-old Chihuahua mix named Sheba dead outside the home.<\/p>\n
Investigators say 35-year-old Christopher Howard had a designated bedroom in the house Sheba was not allowed in.<\/p>\n
When the dog entered the room, Howard reportedly kicked her across the room before picking her up by the neck, throwing her towards the front doorway and hitting her with a chair across the neck and back.<\/p>\n
PCSO says Howard then picked up Sheba by the neck again and dropped her on the ground outside.<\/p>\n
Deputies arrested Howard and charged him with one count of felony cruelty to animals. He was taken to the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n
The investigation into this case is still active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect threw the dog towards his home’s doorway and hit her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-193623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193623","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=193623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}