Concerning the 'viral videos' craze...I actually stumbled across one of the most horrendous videos on YouTube I have ever seen. I think that was a year or more ago. A young man was 'training' his little dog to do some trick (I can't even remember quite what now...I think it was to walk on two legs.) It contained the most outright bullying and cruelty, and was extremely painful to watch even 2 minutes of. The man seemed crazed, and my guess was he was mentally ill. I won't describe any more. I certainly wasn't going to post it here.
I investigated this into the middle of the night, and discovered that animal cruelty people (animal control or whoever) had taken the dog away from him, and it had been re-homed safely elsewhere, and he was charged, etc There were a number of reports about this in the media.
Yet oddly -the video was STILL playing on You Tube! I contacted Google and told them this needed to be taken down.
How fast they are to pull off a movie which presumably would be available on subscription services (and presumably Google has a vested interest in financially??) ....but how they ignored that one!
Enough said.
Anyway I have not encountered the video since. So I think they did listen.
It did make me concerned that others may do similar to make videos of their pets performing unusual tricks. ....but I don't know obviously.
I investigated this into the middle of the night, and discovered that animal cruelty people (animal control or whoever) had taken the dog away from him, and it had been re-homed safely elsewhere, and he was charged, etc There were a number of reports about this in the media.
Yet oddly -the video was STILL playing on You Tube! I contacted Google and told them this needed to be taken down.
How fast they are to pull off a movie which presumably would be available on subscription services (and presumably Google has a vested interest in financially??) ....but how they ignored that one!
Enough said.
Anyway I have not encountered the video since. So I think they did listen.
It did make me concerned that others may do similar to make videos of their pets performing unusual tricks. ....but I don't know obviously.
