When two dog owners met in Homberg (Schwalm-Eder district), one of them stabbed the other's dog with a knife.
On Sunday afternoon, a woman was with her unleashed sheepdog on the way in a field when she met a man with a leashed dog, the police said on Monday.
The shepherd ran up to the 37-year-old man, who then pulled a knife and stabbed the shepherd with it.
Homberg - The animal died immediately.
A preliminary investigation into killing a vertebrate for no good reason and because of property damage was initiated against the 37-year-old.
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