Posted on 08/28/2014 1:21:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
This is the sickening moment a teenager plunges his pet dog head-first into freezing water in an "ice bucket challenge" stunt.
The boy, believed to be from London, forcibly shoves the animal into the bucket in a cruel mutation of the charity fundraising trend.
His actions have been condemned by animal rights campaigners who say it would have been caused "distress, if not harm" to the dog.
Officers from the RSPCA said a "formal investigation" was being conducted into potential offences under the Animal Welfare Act.
Footage of the incident emerged at the height of the craze - which has helped raise over £250,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and tens of millions of pounds for the ALS Association in the US - since it began sweeping the internet.
The video shows the youth clutching the helpless animal and saying: "Here’s my dog and she’s doing the ice bucket challenge. She wants to nominate all the other dogs here and all the cats as well, yeah."
The animal can be heard letting out a yelp after it is plunged into a bucket, which then topples from a work bench it was balanced on.
The footage sparked a backlash on Facebook when it was originally posted.
There are dumb asses everywhere!
LOL!
It was dumb but, I doubt the dog will suffer.
On another note I use to put tape on my cats paws and let it go crazy....
At least the dog doesn’t have to write a check now.
As long as you enjoyed it, I guess that's all that matters.
Or feeding the dog a large spoonful of peanut butter.
LOL!!!
Pretty much...
One of my cats will search out and EAT tape.
Does that count?
Only if you put tobasco on it...
Vile? Sick? Give me a break!
I’d have to clean that litter box and/or cat urp.
And my cat holds a grudge. Last time the vet did a vaccination that cat peed in one of my shoes. IN my shoe, not near or around, IN my shoe when we got back.
LOL!
They do let you know who’s in charge...
Won’t surprise me when someone dies trying to out do all the others in this idiotic social meme.
He’s a 23lb part Maine Coon. He ‘runs the house’.
I literally have to hide any sort of tape or packages we get that have tape on them. He’s evil about trying to eat tape. He’s as bad as a toddler with putting random things he finds on the floor into his mouth.
ROP’er, perchance?
I put tape on my cats and they just look at me.
They're busy evolving opposable thumbs. When they manage it, yer toast.
This, apparently, now passes for international news. Not a criticism of posting it here...just a question about the state of journalism.
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