California boy, 12, admits hanging his small dog ‘to see it die’

A 12-year-old California boy allegedly hanged his small dog on a door handle to "see it die" in a disturbing case of animal cruelty, police said. "I was mad at the dog, so I killed it," the unidentified juvenile casually told investigators after the Friday incident in Salinas, Calif., cops said. "I wanted to see it die," the boy purportedly boasted. Police found the canine corpse after he boy's 19-year-old sister called 911 and blurted out, "He's hurting the dog," before the dispatcher heard a struggle and the line hung up, a Salinas Police spokesman told the Daily News. "She was trying to intervene, and he battered her," Officer Miguel Cabrera told The News. "So she left the apartment with a second dog, trying to protect it."

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