{"id":3956,"date":"2015-10-16T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-man-faces-animal-cruelty-charges-for-beating-dog\/"},"modified":"2015-10-16T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:03:06","slug":"alaska-man-faces-animal-cruelty-charges-for-beating-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-man-faces-animal-cruelty-charges-for-beating-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska man faces animal cruelty charges for beating dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 Alaska State Troopers have arrested a man they say beat his dog with metal pipe and a two-by-four, injuring it so severely that it had to be euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>KTVA-TV reported that troopers arrested the 44-year-old Soldotna man for animal cruelty after finding a badly injured Labrador-pitbull mix in his house.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the dog vomited a large amount of blood and a veterinarian said it needed to be euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>They accuse the man of beating the dog until it was unconscious with a large metal pipe because it growled at him. According to troopers, the dog later woke up and the man beat again it with a two-by-four with a screw sticking out of it until the lumber broke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska State Troopers have arrested a man they say beat his dog with metal pipe and a two-by-four, injuring it so severely that it had to be euthanized. KTVA-TV reported that troopers arrested the 44-year-old Soldotna man for animal cruelty after finding a badly injured Labrador-pitbull mix in his house. Troopers say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}