Huffington Post video

A Minnesota mom was outraged after a police chief decapitated her 5-year-old son's pet chicken, leaving its head in the yard for the family to find, according to video from Huffington Post.

Ashley Turnbull says her son, Phoenix, was given the chicken and two ducks as a birthday gift. Even though she was made aware of a city ordinance that banned such pets, she thinks Atwater Police Chief Trevor Berger went too far.

"The chicken was like a puppy dog to my son," Turnbull told the West Central Tribune. "You wouldn't do that to a puppy.

Berger defending his actions, saying he chose to kill the chicken with a shovel because he didn't want to shoot it with children nearby.