A 42-year-old man from Ogíjares (Granada) was charged with hanging his neighbour’s dog because it barked too much.

The dog’s owner reported it as missing on the 7th of this month to the Guardia Civil post in Armilla. He described it as a 7-year-old mongrel. He thought that it had escaped through the bars in a fence. The Guardia Civil officers remembered that they had received a complaint about a dog barking just after midnight on the same date. They popped around and saw that the house owner had managed to catch the said dog using a rope, but when they offered to take the dog around to its owner, he shouted at them to stay away from it.

The police were taken aback, but not as much as when he jerked it into the air and left it dangling in the slip noose, until it stopped kicking, strangled. Sharp reflexes from the police, obviously.

Now, the original article goes on to say that he ‘apparently told his wife to bring a plastic bag, which he placed the dog in, put the bag in the boot of his car and drove away allegedly to get rid of the carcass…’ but does that mean that the Guardia Civil just stood there and watched the man throttle the life out of the dog without intervening?

Whatever. The fact is that now the man is up before a judge facing a charge of violating a law that protects flora, fauna and domestic animals.

(News: Ogijares, Granada, Andalucia)