We caught up with Loretta Bozeman at her arraignment hearing Friday morning... about a month after she posted a picture on Facebook of her grandaughter hanging a dog by a rope.
Bozeman is still recovering from the social media backlash.
Friday morning, Loretta Bozeman and her family waited to see a public defender at the Bay County Courthouse.
It's been about a month since Bozeman posted this controversial picture of a dog tied up with a jump rope on Facebook.
When the photo went viral, the Bozemans began receiving hundreds of death threats.
Bay County Animal Control removed the family's two dogs from the home, both Charlie and a Siberian Husky who was not involved.
Officials charged Loretta with an animal cruelty misdemeanor.
Loretta Bozeman says, "I'm ready to get my dogs back. I'm ready for my granddaughter to stop crying herself to sleep at night and having seizures the next day."
The Bozemans say Charlie helps Loretta's granddaughter with her seizures.
They say the picture was reenacting something the two girls had seen on television.
Joseph Martin is Loretta's son-in-law, and the father of the girl in the picture. He says, "Charlie is - the relationship is kind of like our bodyguard basically to my daughter. She lets us know when she has seizures, she lets us know if anything goes wrong or whatever happens to my daughter. Their relationship is incredible."
The Bozemans say they haven't been able to visit their two dogs at animal control.
Martin explains, "Between my daughter and the dog, it's killing my daughter. It's slowly just dropping her."
Loretta says, "They were just playing and you can see on their face that they were just playing. They were not being evil. Look at their face. They were smiling."
Loretta says she still receives about one to five death threats a day.
The Bozemans won't know if they get the dogs back until after a judge rules on the case.
(WJHG-TV - Aug 29, 2014)
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