{"id":194215,"date":"2026-03-17T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:11:21","slug":"st-pete-man-accused-of-killing-7-year-old-dog-after-throwing-attacking-her-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194215\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man accused of killing 7-year-old dog after throwing, attacking her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A St. Pete man is facing felony animal cruelty charges after deputies say his attack led to his 7-year-old dog&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When they arrived, they found a 7-year-old Chihuahua mix named Sheba dead outside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say 35-year-old Christopher Howard had a designated bedroom in the house Sheba was not allowed in.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PCSO says Howard then picked up Sheba by the neck again and dropped her on the ground outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies arrested Howard and charged him with one count of felony cruelty to animals. He was taken to the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation into this case is still active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Pete man is facing felony animal cruelty charges after deputies say his attack led to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89693,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-194215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-christopher-howard","tag-pinellas-county","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\/194215","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=194215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}