Nicole Anderson was sentenced Thursday to two years’ probation and 150 hours of public service for the way she killed her friend’s dog, not for the fact that she killed it.
The Fort Collins woman was sentenced for misdemeanor animal cruelty in 8th Judicial District Court for the June 21 death of an Australian shepherd-Labrador mix.
Rawah had attacked and killed Anderson’s poodle and, because of the dog’s history of violence, she feared for her 5-year-old son, who has special needs.
Anderson called Paul Green, Rawah’s owner, and he gave her permission to put the dog down, he said in court Thursday afternoon.
But instead of surrendering the dog to the Humane Society or taking it to a veterinarian, Anderson killed the dog the way she learned to kill animals growing up on a farm: She twisted its neck and then slit its throat.
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