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A Des Moines man has been arrested and charged with animal abuse after allegedly pepper-spraying dogs that were secured behind a fence.According to local reports and court filings, the incident involved a man (identified in court records as Crouse) approaching a residential property where dogs were enclosed in a fenced yard. Rather than avoiding the area or continuing past, the individual deployed pepper spray directly at the fenced-in animals, causing them distress and pain. Because the dogs were safely contained within private property and posed no active threat, law enforcement determined the use of pepper spray was unprovoked and constituted animal cruelty, leading to official misdemeanor animal abuse charges filed through the local attorney’s office.