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After a night of drinking, a Violet man was arrested on charges of pummeling his pit bull with a baseball bat and plunging a sword through its neck because the dog messed in his bedroom,*authorities said today.
Despite being hit four times and stabbed with the four-foot sword, the dog survived, said Chief Deputy James Pohlmann of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. It was treated at a local animal clinic.
Its owner, Ralph J. Topey III, 29, of 2325 General Pershing St. is being held at the parish jail in lieu of $65,000 bond.
The incident happened Tuesday night after Topey, who had been at a bar drinking, returned to the home he shares with several relatives, Pohlmann said. A relative said Topey walked from his room in an angry manner and told her the dog had made a mess in his bedroom, the Sheriff's Office said. She saw a trail of blood in the residence and found the dog in the bathroom, covered in blood, Pohlmann said.
The woman called another relative, who took the dog to a West Bank emergency clinic. The dog suffered facial fractures as the wound to the neck and throat and is now with the relative who took it in for treatment.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the residence Wednesday and interviewed Topey, who acknowledged beating and stabbing the animal. He said he hid the bat and sword but told deputies their location, and both were recovered.
They booked him with aggravated cruelty to an animal, a felony.
Despite being hit four times and stabbed with the four-foot sword, the dog survived, said Chief Deputy James Pohlmann of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. It was treated at a local animal clinic.
Its owner, Ralph J. Topey III, 29, of 2325 General Pershing St. is being held at the parish jail in lieu of $65,000 bond.
The incident happened Tuesday night after Topey, who had been at a bar drinking, returned to the home he shares with several relatives, Pohlmann said. A relative said Topey walked from his room in an angry manner and told her the dog had made a mess in his bedroom, the Sheriff's Office said. She saw a trail of blood in the residence and found the dog in the bathroom, covered in blood, Pohlmann said.
The woman called another relative, who took the dog to a West Bank emergency clinic. The dog suffered facial fractures as the wound to the neck and throat and is now with the relative who took it in for treatment.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the residence Wednesday and interviewed Topey, who acknowledged beating and stabbing the animal. He said he hid the bat and sword but told deputies their location, and both were recovered.
They booked him with aggravated cruelty to an animal, a felony.
