Man Barbecues Neighbor’s Dog, Gets 2.5 Years

A man from the Urals region of Russia was sentenced Tuesday to 2.5 years behind bars for killing his neighbor’s dog and making a barbecue from it.

Interfax reported that Dmitri Purigin, 29, was having a barbecue with friends in front of his house in February 2006. His neighbor’s son, aged 11, was walking his dog, a stray mongrel he talked his parents into taking in.

Purigin approached the boy, snatched the leash away from him and went off with the dog.

When the boy’s mother came home later that day, it was too late to save the animal. The dog had been killed, skinned and part of the meat had been barbecued and eaten. Some was left in the snow for later, with the bloody skin lying nearby.

A court found Purigin guilty of robbery and gave him a prison term. The defendant tried to appeal the ruling, but failed.