[Responsibility2nd]

Not enough info in the excerpt to form an opinion.

And I doubt the video is all that complete as well.

[freeandfreezing]

It sounds like an argument between the owners escalated. And then the dog's owner didn't want to spend the money to save his dog. A sad mess that should have been avoided by the people involved.

"The heartbroken owner rushed Eli to a vet on 63rd Street, where doctors found a tumor that likely would have killed the pooch in about five months, he said.

That, combined with the internal injuries and the thousands of dollars it would have cost to try to patch him back up, left Brian with little choice but to put him down."