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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I don't normally say this and maybe I'm missing something but in both this video and the "cops beat woman" video I don't see anything particularly horrible.
I see she hit the dog a couple times and she is out of control screaming. Those are both bad but there is no permanent damage to the dog. It's not like she kept kicking the dog, she hung him from a noose, burnt him with a lighter, etc These are animals and they often are going to resist a bit with strangers. Perhaps even bite and scratch. It's not an easy job and you're probably going to have to use some degree of force at times. I'm not sure what happened with the vacuum. I couldn't see it. Could she have used the vacuum just to scare the dog out of the cage? I wouldn't want my dog treated like that but under some circumstances when dealing with strange dogs I can understand getting angry or even hitting a larger dog a bit moderately (not striking hard but lightly or moderately - especially if they are biting). Not every dog is like foo-foo your toy dog. I'm sure they get all kinds in there.
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I was going to avoid this video, until I read this post. I agree, aside from the first part which
is unpleasant, I didn't really see anything horrific, though it's quite hard to see anything.
I think she was just trying to get the dog out with the vacuum, and was frustrated. As you say, not all dogs are going to be well behaved, and who knows what she has to deal with (that can lead to frustration).
That's absolutely no excuse for violence though, and she does not look to me like someone who should be working with animals (who knows what hasn't been caught on film), but the OP is overreacting, particularly when there is far, far, far worse animal abuse going on in the world.
Firing her seems appropriate and reasonable, hopefully with a lifetime ban on working with animals. And kids and the elderly for that matter.