PUNE: The Khadki police have registered an animal cruelty case against a 27-year-old salon owner from Bopodi for brutally killing his neighbour’s pet dog on the Pune-Mumbai Road in the same locality, around 4am on Monday.Police said the man was taking revenge over the claim that the dog had bitten his wife a few days earlier.Senior inspector Vikramsingh Kadam of the Khadki police said, “The accused claimed that the pet dog had bitten his wife thrice in the last two weeks. He said he had confronted his neighbour, the pet owner, regarding this, but the latter continued to keep the dog unleashed.”Kadam added, “The salon owner was angry with the pet owner. On Monday, the dog allegedly started barking in the early morning hours. The salon owner woke up and used a heavy stone to bludgeon the pet to death.”“The pet dog owner lodged a complaint with us. He said the dog’s actual owner is out of town, so he was pet-sitting the dog for the time being,” said the officer.
