A reputed animal lover from Michigan was reportedly beaten to death while trying to stop his neighbor from beating a dog on Christmas Eve, according to authorities and people who knew the victim. Robert “Bobby” Cavanaugh, 60, was riding his bicycle through his mobile home community in the Detroit suburb of Madison Heights when he noticed a fellow resident physically abusing a dog, neighbors of the men told the local Fox affiliate. Cavanaugh purportedly stopped, got off his bicycle and stepped in to try to defend the animal. But the other man ended up striking Cavanaugh with a pipe and