By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 03:58 EST, 23 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:02 EST, 23 November 2012 . A family were left heartbroken after teenage thieves butchered their pet turkey to put on their Thanksgiving dinner table. Christa and Brian Caponi discovered that their beloved 30lbs turkey Tom was missing on Monday morning and when they found a trail of blood and feathers they feared the worst. Two teenagers from their neighbourhood in Santa Rosa County, Florida have been charged with killing Tom using a bow and arrow after Mr Caponi spotted them on the family’s CCTV. Santa Rosa County sheriff’s deputies . arrested Joshua Anderson, 19, and Jacob Provo, 18, on Monday, both . living in the Caponis’ neighbourhood. Killed: The Caponi family were left devastated when thieves stole their Tom the Turkey and killed the bird for a Thanksgiving meal . Arrested: Jacob Provo, left, and Joshua Anderson, right were caught as they allegedly went to butcher the Caponi family's  turkey . Family pet: Owner Brian Caponi with Tom the Turkey who was killed for aThanksgiving meal . Tom the turkey was like a member of the family, Mrs Caponi said, and was a favourite among the family’s menagerie of 50 cats, goats, chickens and roosters kept on their six acre Gulf Breeze home. ‘He was a family pet,’ Mrs Caponi told Pensacola News Journal. ‘It was like having a normal family dog.’ Mr Caponi saw the teenagers on a CCTV recording of the night Tom disappeared, and they have been charged with armed burglary, armed trespassing, theft of livestock and animal cruelty. The pair were arrested on their way to . prepare the bird for dinner, admitting they had planned to turn him . into their Thanksgiving meal. Mr . Provo admitted to having entered the pen where Tom was kept and shot . him with an arrow. Anderson told officers that he was accompanying Provo . when the turkey was killed, PNJ reported. ‘He . was so friendly,’ a devastated Mrs Caponi said. ‘My husband and I are . big animal lovers and our animals are very close to us. It’s been a very . rough two days.’ The two teenagers are in the Santa Rosa County jail on $57,000 bail. Butchered: Tom the turkey, a family pet, was killed by thieves . Devastated: Brian Caponi the owner of Tom the turkey who was killed says the bird was like a 'normal family pet'
Two teenage thieves killed the turkey in his pen using a bow and arrow .
Arrested as they were heading to butcher the bird for Thanksgiving dinner .
By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 03:58 EST, 23 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:02 EST, 23 November 2012 . A family were left heartbroken after teenage thieves butchered their pet turkey to put on their Thanksgiving dinner table. Christa and Brian Caponi discovered that their beloved 30lbs turkey Tom was missing on Monday morning and when they found a trail of blood and feathers they feared the worst. Two teenagers from their neighbourhood in Santa Rosa County, Florida have been charged with killing Tom using a bow and arrow after Mr Caponi spotted them on the family’s CCTV. Santa Rosa County sheriff’s deputies . arrested Joshua Anderson, 19, and Jacob Provo, 18, on Monday, both . living in the Caponis’ neighbourhood. Killed: The Caponi family were left devastated when thieves stole their Tom the Turkey and killed the bird for a Thanksgiving meal . Arrested: Jacob Provo, left, and Joshua Anderson, right were caught as they allegedly went to butcher the Caponi family's  turkey . Family pet: Owner Brian Caponi with Tom the Turkey who was killed for aThanksgiving meal . Tom the turkey was like a member of the family, Mrs Caponi said, and was a favourite among the family’s menagerie of 50 cats, goats, chickens and roosters kept on their six acre Gulf Breeze home. ‘He was a family pet,’ Mrs Caponi told Pensacola News Journal. ‘It was like having a normal family dog.’ Mr Caponi saw the teenagers on a CCTV recording of the night Tom disappeared, and they have been charged with armed burglary, armed trespassing, theft of livestock and animal cruelty. The pair were arrested on their way to . prepare the bird for dinner, admitting they had planned to turn him . into their Thanksgiving meal. Mr . Provo admitted to having entered the pen where Tom was kept and shot . him with an arrow. Anderson told officers that he was accompanying Provo . when the turkey was killed, PNJ reported. ‘He . was so friendly,’ a devastated Mrs Caponi said. ‘My husband and I are . big animal lovers and our animals are very close to us. It’s been a very . rough two days.’ The two teenagers are in the Santa Rosa County jail on $57,000 bail. Butchered: Tom the turkey, a family pet, was killed by thieves . Devastated: Brian Caponi the owner of Tom the turkey who was killed says the bird was like a 'normal family pet'
a bow and arrow after Mr Caponi spotted them on the Turkey and killed the bird for a Thanksgiving Anderson, right were caught as they allegedly went to butcher the Caponi family's  turkey .