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his dog to death with a baseball bat. a neighbor who saw it called police but was too late to save the dog. melinda is live from the the park animal shhlter downtown where the dog was uthanizeed. melinda. reporter: this miniature pounds.. but authorities say8 the beatiig that he suffered was nothing short of crimiial. we want to warn you some of the pictures you may find very disturbing. the dog apparently suffered a broken windpipe and jaw. several ribs ere cracked and a half -úof his teeth were broken. it all happened at the owner roo home on west franklin street. the owner claims that the dog was on the family cat and when he tried pulling the dog off the cat it bit him. so he claimed the baseball bat was -úpunishment. a neighbor who heard and saw the beating called 911 but when police arrived, the dog was barely dog was found in the back of a pickup truck in a plastic bag by the responding police officers. so had the neighbors not been smart would have ever kno ....