Charges filed in pet stabbing

A 27-year-old man who authorities say claims to have a split personality faces arraignment Thursday on charges that he stabbed two pets near Newport, Wash.

Adam Michael Richardson, a transient, is charged in Pend Oreille County Superior Court with two counts of first-degree animal cruelty.

Sheriff’s deputies said Richardson told them when they arrested him on Feb. 20 that his other personality probably stabbed a dog and a cat a few days earlier.

The dog survived several chest and head wounds after it was found blocking traffic on U.S. Highway 2 on Feb. 17.

But the cat, stabbed through the neck, died in the arms of its owner, Stephanie Foust.

Foust and the dog’s owner, Kenneth Renner, told officers Richardson had been staying with them and became angry when asked to leave.