Rene Andrade, 22, was arrested Sunday and was arraigned Wednesday, said Investigator Sylvia Lemus.
Andrade is being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga in lieu of $50,000 bail on the animal cruelty charge and battery charges, according San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department inmate records.
He is expected to be back in court Aug. 19.
The arrest and charges stem from an incident which occurred Sunday in the 700 block of Virginia Avenue in Ontario.
Ontario Police Department officers responded to a family dispute there.
Lemus said officers wrote in their report that Andrade was “detoxing from methamphetamine” use for the past two months and told officers he was hearing voices.
Andrade allegedly choked the 1-year-old family Chihuahua mixed breed named Mickey and then threw him over a wall, Lemus said.
Andrade told police he thought nothing happened to the dog because nothing had happened when he’d done something similar to the animal before.
Neighbors contacted the animal’s owners and told them a dog they believed belonged to them was in their yard, Lemus said.
It was “an almost lifeless dog laying in its own feces and urine and foaming at the mouth,” according to a statement from the Humane Society.
Lemus said the Humane Society was notified of the case on Tuesday, the same day she went to check on the dog.
The family said the dog’s condition was improving but Lemus said she removed the dog from the home and took it to the Humane Society facilities in Pomona for treatment.
The initial diagnosis is that the dog suffered spinal trauma and is having difficulties walking.
“He will need continued medical care,” Lemus said, “but he is improving.”
The dog will eventually return home.
“He will be allowed to go back to the family as long as the suspect is not present,” Lemus said. “If he is present the dog will be removed.”
(Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-Aug 14, 2015)
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