Robert Hohenberger bought a pellet gun six months ago to discourage wandering dogs from using his small patch of grass as a toilet.
But that $29.95 purchase has already cost him nearly $400 to get himself bonded out of the Clayton County Jail, after he was arrested Saturday night for cruelty to animals.
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