Wow. Spend tens of thousands of tax dollars to prosecute a man for killing his own dog.
What is next? Prosecute a farmer for killing his own livestock?
The dog owner did not dispose of the dog properly, that is true. But simply killing an animal should not be considered animal cruelty. If it were, all animal shelters should be convicted of animal cruelty on multiple counts every week.
Yep.
there’s a difference between humanely killing an animal, which is the normal order of things although sad when the need for its death is caused by an idiot human (e.g. not spaying etc) and the occasional psycho who harms or tortures the animal first; the latter are capable of doing to a human anything the do to an animal.