A WOMAN allegedly tricked her husband for seven months with a pretend pregnancy before mutilating his Chihuahua to fake a miscarriage.
Anita Parker, 43, has been charged with felony animal cruelty after her husband Johnny Parker discovered his pooch's body in a rubbish bin at their Alabama, United States home on Thursday.
Mr Parker said his wife called him to say she was cramping. When he found her covered in blood, she said she had suffered a miscarriage and flushed her stillborn son down the toilet.
The couple rushed to the hospital where doctors found no proof of a miscarriage.
"They tell me, she wasn't pregnant, she never has been pregnant," Johnny Parker told ABC News in the US.
"I guess she pushed her belly out all the time, because she looked like she was. And she sends me pictures of the ultrasounds."
Mr Parker said his wife, who has had a troubled history involving drugs, claimed she was seven months pregnant with a boy. She refused, however, to take her husband to the doctor with her.
Police said Ms Parker lied about the pregnancy to convince her husband to move back in with her.
She is accused of cutting open the eight-month-old Chihuahua's stomach and using its blood and tissue to make it seem like she suffered a miscarriage in bed.
Ms Parker is being held on $US7000 bond at Lawrence County Jail, WHNT reported.
Her husband said he now has trouble sleeping.
"It hurts like crap, man, about my dog. I loved that dog, man," he said.
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