Photo Courtesy: KVUE
Sheriff’s deputies outside Waco, Texas, are investigating an animal cruelty case after people reported a Snapchat video showing several youths shooting a dog and then shoving firecrackers inside its body. They later set the dog on fire and watched it burn.
A Facebook user, Serena Kristiana Teakell, posted a copy of the video to her page alerting people to the graphic nature of the attack on the dog. The post was eventually deleted by Facebook but not before it received over 2,000,000 views, nearly 10,000 reactions and nearly 28,000 shares.
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In her post, she said, “I’d like to introduce you to a little boy from the Waco area.” She continued saying she would like to “show you all what he and his friends think is cool to do to a dogs body. I have no idea how the dog died or who this kid is, but since he found it so funny and cool to post on this Snapchat, I figured he wouldn’t mind if I shared it with Facebook.”
After she received what was apparently some negative feedback about the post, she responded with her reasoning for why she offered it.
“I posted it because, as it goes with all things, when the public is outraged they can not turn a blind eye to the subject,” she wrote. At the very least, he will be shamed publicly and at the very least, everyone will be aware of his deep seeded psychological issues.”
The owner of the nearly 1-year- old pup named Ellie said the dog went missing on Friday but he didn’t know what happened to her until she came across the video on Facebook in an interview with KVUE.
