A man on Florida's Gulf Coast has been charged with animal cruelty after authorities said he killed, cooked and ate two of his pet peacocks.

The 61-year-old man from Hudson, Florida, was arrested last week on a third-degree felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty, according to an affidavit from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

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The man told investigators that he had killed the two peacocks because his neighbor kept feeding them. He had written the neighbor a letter telling her that he would continue to kill his pet peacocks if she kept feeding them “to prove a point,” according to the affidavit, which didn't say how many peacocks he kept.

The man “admitted to killing the bird by cutting the bird's neck out of s

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