COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- An extreme case of animal cruelty sends one Fort Carson soldier to jail after he admits to strangling dogs to subdue his homicidal urges.

The affidavit for 28-year-old Spc. Brian Jones details the two alleged situations of animal cruelty - information the Fort Carson soldier said is from a case worker he spoke with back in April.

"I started having really bad flashbacks and bad nightmares, everything was starting to buckle down on me, and I couldn't handle it, and I decided to get help," Jones, who claims he didn't kill the dogs, said.

In the arrest documents, Jones admitted to "hearing voices coming from the basement," and in an attempt to "quell homicidal urges," he strangled the dogs, which gave him some "temporary relief."

His admission of animal cruelty was forwarded to the Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region.

"It's extremely disturbing, not only from the animal point of view but potential danger to humans," Joe Stafford, Director of Animal Law Enforcement for the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, said.

But Jones said he didn't harm the dogs, and his admission is a result of his one-year deployment to Afghanistan.

"I finally went on medication, that's when I realized I didn't kill the dog."

The Mountain Post soldier said he has since been put on a number of medications to cope with severe PTSD, schizophrenia and his bipolar tendencies.

He said the prescriptions have helped him remember his rat terrier ran away.

Jones' second dog, a pitbull mix was impounded.