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Berrydale Man Charged With Allegedly Beating A Puppy With A Pole
June 21, 2025
A 57-year-old Berrydale man was charged with beating a 5-month-old puppy with a fiberglass pole, causing a traumatic injury.
Michael Dexter Hunter was arrested for aggravated animal cruelty after his wife reported the incident at their home.
According to an arrest report, the Blue Heeler puppy was traumatically injured, unable to walk, foaming at the mouth and “yelping hysterically while spinning in a circle.”
Hunter’s wife told deputies that she walked out of the house to see Hunter standing over the puppy with a fiberglass pole in the air.
According to the report, the wife took the puppy to an emergency veterinarian in Pensacola. The vet provided pain medication and advised proper home care for the puppy.
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17 Responses to “Berrydale Man Charged With Allegedly Beating A Puppy With A Pole”
What luck! Dexters law was just signed by DeSantis last month placing a multiplier on animal abuse charges. The purpose being to put the abusers in jail…where this guy absolute belongs in a cell with Hannibal, a devout animal lover, who is already doing life……
Hopefully the public will watch the case move thru the court system . This guy needs to be punished . A sick mind walking amongst us . Scary .
Bad enough this guy has a license to breathe but he certainly needs any right to legally possess a firearm permanently revoked . He is mentally unstable and needs to get that grand prize label “ CONVICTED FELON “ . You earned it buddy now live with it .
Next time: you disgusting COWARD, pick on something your own size.
You deserve to be treated with the same evil you treat others. I hope you suffer and rot in H.
This makes me sick. This dude is a piece of crap!
That poor dog will probably never trust being around people again.
Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’
Dexter Hunter you know better !!! Even hunting dogs don’t deserve to be beaten or killed especially a 5 month old puppy . Some of these guys will just shoot a dog because they won’t perform properly for them …. Wait till the good Lord deals with youin !!
Emerson
Find me and come at me with that pole. It’ll be your last…
What is up with all these full grown men killing and injuries dogs(puppies)…..3 on here in last month
Put them in kennel cages with 3 o4 bad dogs. They dont need to be out in society.
Dexter Hunter, I cannot believe what I’m reading! What on earth has happened to you? This kind of behavior comes from sick individuals, I think you may at this time need help. I hope justice is served and you pay for what you have done, this just is not right!
I hope the FULL weight of the law is given to this person! I would love to be on his jury!
The puppy should not be in the same home as that low-life human.
This kina thing makes me absolutely believe the devil walks in human form..how in the WORLD could u do that to a animal??? How??? No excuse for mental health…no you EVIL!!
I can’t believe the pure evil in this world.
That is so sad I hope she divorce him because if he will hit the dog he will hit her next hope the dog make a full recovery wife should take the pole beat him with it
I hope the wife doesn’t stay with this man. He’s not gone be happy about her turning him in. And if he’ll hurt a puppy like that, he’ll hurt a human. Guys like this end up killing their wives. So hopefully she bails and never looks back