How this for a response to a pup’s natural impulses?

Authorities have charged a South Carolina woman with felony animal cruelty, saying she hanged her nephew’s [one-year-old] pit bull from a tree with an electrical cord and burned its body because the dog chewed on her Bible.

Animal control officers said Monday that 65-year-old Miriam Smith told them she killed a female dog named Diamond because it was a “devil dog” and she worried it could harm neighborhood children. …

Authorities say the remains of the dog were found under a pile of grass with part of an electrical cord around its neck.