{"id":140950,"date":"2026-02-21T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140950\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:16:14","slug":"watertown-man-accused-of-starving-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140950\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertown man accused of starving dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A 46-year-old Watertown man faces animal cruelty charges for allegedly starving his dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to city police, an American Bully owned by Jamine Howard was severely malnourished and had multiple sores, hair loss and no palpable body fat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two-year-old dog weighed 35 pounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Howard was charged with a misdemeanor count of overdriving, torturing and injuring an animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was ticketed to appear in city court on March 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the dog has been placed with a foster family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A 46-year-old Watertown man faces animal cruelty charges for allegedly starving his dog.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6343,1958,59497,9,11,10,49,51,50,104,48306,7524],"class_list":{"0":"post-140950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-animal-cruelty","9":"tag-dog","10":"tag-jamine-howard","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-starvation","19":"tag-watertown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}