Punta Gorda, Florida – A six-week-old puppy suffered a brutal death at the hands of a Florida man who repeatedly punched it. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, 53-year-old Neil R. Puterbaugh was arrested on September 15 after a crime tip was reported to the authorities.
In a release, the violent encounter was recounted, describing what video footage captured:
(Puterbaugh) repeatedly and forcefully striking his six-week-old puppy. This violence continued, along with additional abuse, until the helpless animal had died.
Shockingly, though the puppy was only six weeks of age, additional videos were found showing Puterbaugh abusing the pup.
Puterbaugh was arrested on felony Aggravated Animal Cruelty charges and Violation of Probation.
Sheriff Bill Prummell said:
“My heart hurts for what this sweet puppy endured. There is no excuse for abuse of this kind, and I believe the only word to describe it is ‘evil’. Thank you to the person who reported this, and to our media partner who shared it with us to investigate. I wish we could have known sooner so that maybe we could have prevented this terrible outcome. I pray this puppy is now playing free for eternity in a world without pain and fear.”
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118 Comments
Cant stop thinking about the abuse and death of this baby 😡😢 but at least in the US lowlife cowards scum like this are on the news named and shamed and usually get jail time here in the UK animal abusers get a slap on the wrist 😡
Get this piece of filth out of society. Hopefully someone will beat him to death whether he is in prison or not.
Get this piece of filth out of society. Hopefully someone will beat him to death whether he is in prison or not.
Same to him.
Unbelievable! I hope someone beats the hell out of him just as he did that poor innocent puppy. No excuse for anyone to do that and get by with it.
knock the Fuck out of this piece of scum. put him in jail and let the other animal loving inmates, punch him to within an inch of his life, then let him die, an agonising and painful long death, so he knows what it felt like to be beaten to death, like he did to that puppy!!!! makes me wonder how many before this pup!!! thank you to the person who reported him!!!! a brave thing to do!!!! don’t let him near another living animal, or chop off his hands so he’ll never hurt another animal, may the wounds get infected and perhaps he’ll die, may it take a long and agonising time until he dies!!! rot in Hell you POS!!!!!
Anyone capable of this atrocious violence against a defenceless soul, does NOT belong among people AND animals. They are a danger to all and everyone. Lock him in a box and throw away the key. He did this beat and MURDERED an innocent soul, it means he’s done it before, and will do it again. No one is safe.
Put him in a cage and let a gorilla beat this pos to death
Put him in a cage and let a gorilla beat this pos to death
Put him in a cage and let a gorilla beat this pos to death
OMG this is heartbreaking to read and see 💔 this sick depraved sub human lowlife scum needs the same treatment as he gave the puppy 😡 i am so upset this poor baby who must have suffered so much in his/her short life what a horrible world we live in when such evil walks amongst us 😡 hope he gets what he deserves the horrible sadistic coward would he do that to someone his own size i think not 😡 words fail me at they way some humans treat animals 😡😢 he will have done this before and not been caught 😡jail this piece of sh** and hope gets beaten up in jail 😡
This is a monster. Someone needs to beat him to death so he knows how that innocent puppy felt. Bless that pup who unfortunately crossed paths with this creep.
This POS got the puppy to intentionally abuse it. He didn’t get it to love it and raise it and to be a companion. This man should never be allowed around any animals ever for the rest of his days.
This lowlife has no place living in our society. He is incapable of contributing anything other than pain and suffering to all those around him. Lock him up for the rest of his worthless life; don’t give him the chance to do this to another innocent animal.
I want him dead.
people like this hate their self so bad because nobody likes them so they take it out on the one thing that would like them. I don’t understand it.
What a POS human scum bag who beat this poor puppy. Thank you to the person who exposed this extremely cruelty.
May the perpetrator of this heinous act suffer excruciating pain the rest of his miserable life and die screaming in agony
You POS scum bag
beat him so he knows what it feels like. A slap on the wrist and a small fine is not going go stop this subhuman from doing this again.
lock him up for life so he can’t harm another living being
I agree. Punishments should fit the crime.
beat him so he knows what it feels like. A slap on the wrist and a small fine is not going go stop this subhuman from doing this again.
lock him up for life so he can’t harm another living being
He needs to be in prison and a permanent ban on animal ownership for life