<p>A 27-year-old Briton has been jailed for over four months after he hanged his six-month-old puppy by its collar and then beat it to death with a baseball bat because it had urinated on the carpet.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Craig Curtis hung his Staffordshire bull terrier Bruno after the pup urinated. He then battered the dog, and put its lifeless body in his freezer before dumping it later in a nearby woodland in March this year, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />The Cambridge magistrates' court heard that the dog's body was found wrapped in blood-stained sheets.<br /><br />Curtis pleaded guilty to cruelty charges under the Animal Welfare Act.<br /><br />Initially believed to have been poisoned, due to the large amount of blood around its nose and mouth, a post-mortem examination revealed the dog suffered fractures to its skull and died after being struck around the head with a blunt instrument.</p>
<p>A 27-year-old Briton has been jailed for over four months after he hanged his six-month-old puppy by its collar and then beat it to death with a baseball bat because it had urinated on the carpet.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Craig Curtis hung his Staffordshire bull terrier Bruno after the pup urinated. He then battered the dog, and put its lifeless body in his freezer before dumping it later in a nearby woodland in March this year, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />The Cambridge magistrates' court heard that the dog's body was found wrapped in blood-stained sheets.<br /><br />Curtis pleaded guilty to cruelty charges under the Animal Welfare Act.<br /><br />Initially believed to have been poisoned, due to the large amount of blood around its nose and mouth, a post-mortem examination revealed the dog suffered fractures to its skull and died after being struck around the head with a blunt instrument.</p>