The police intervened on Sunday, shortly after 5 p.m., in Orange (Vaucluse).
As Le Dauphiné Libéré relates, they were alerted for acts of malicious intent on a domestic animal.
When they arrived at the scene, they found an eleven-month-old Pointer puppy.
His skull was sunken and his head was bleeding.
The owner faces imprisonment
According to the police, the animal was hit with a pickaxe by its owner.
He is a young man of 23 years old.
Suspected of mistreatment of his puppy, he was heard by the investigators.
He would have acknowledged the facts.
If convicted, he faces jail time for cruelty to a pet.
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