A man has been found guilty of killing and cooking his dog, before feeding it to another dog.
Dominic O'Connor, 27, used a lead to strangle Jess, a four-year-old collie, before cooking her with "a few onions and an Oxo cube," Donpatrick Crown court heard, according to the BBC reported.
O'Connor, who suffers from a personality disorder, told the court how he had tried to strangle Jess with one lead, but had to use a smaller one because the first had "too much give."
He said he then cut the dog up and then "cooked it and fed it to the other dog."
O'Connor then chopped up the dog's carcass before burning it and dumping the remains in Portavogie Harbour, County Down.
He later told health professionals what he had done, and police visited his home to find burned dog hair and liquid in the fire grate.
His friend told the jury he had admitted to her he killed the dog.
"In a way he was joyful about it," she told the court. "He was not all there. His heart was somewhere else."
O'Connor is due to be sentenced on 21 November.
