Theo, it’s not insider information. I see a person taking an animal many times smaller than itself, restraining it, putting it on its back, and hyperextending both its front legs and upper back until the animal cries out, and getting pleasure out of it. Even if it is done in ignorance it’s abuse.

Steph, so longtimelurker can’t call nuffers stupid but the nuffers can call a loving pet owner a pet abuser or sadistic idiot?

Omg. Now people will start flagging this poor dog owner on youtube, accuse her of animal abuse, risk her losing her account because she’s tickling her puppy?? People watch the movie again!! Whenever she takes a break the dog woud at least try to run away if it was in pain. The dog is not suffering, believe me no matter how small a dog is, if s/he’s in pain, they react! You don’t see that on that movie.

I absolutely stand by Theo. Come on people, I watched the movie and what I saw was a pet owner absolutely in love with her pet and after I read the comments I just felt so sad.

Why is it so hard to take a second to analyse your opinions before you lash out on pet owners for negligence (because omg the dog is drinking too much water and he’s gonna die any moment) or pet abuse for tickling a puppy. Believe me if someone was twisting the dog’s arm or pulling his muscle, it would have bitten her until she let it out…

*sigh*

Yeesh.

Everyone. Step away from your keyboards now.

You know what? I agree.

All those who are concerned about the pup’s welfare and can’t stand seeing this video on CO should take action.

And that action is hitting Alt-F4.

You guys’ll be *amazed* how quickly that works.

Last time I checked, I was allowed an opinion – like anyone else. No need to mount a personal attack or start a flam war. I did what I felt was right and have offered an outlet to those who agree. In fact, I’m not the first commenter to make the suggestion of going to YouTube about it.

There seems to be a love it or hate it thing going on here. I’m fine with agreeing to disagree but would prefer the personal attacks to be kept to a minimum.

…And next, it’ll be abuse to dress your babies in silly halloween costumes, just because the kids look disgruntled while you took photos and made idiotic cooing noises. OH THE HUMANITY.

Mind you, I’m not an immediate fan of poms (personally, the bug eyes that work on tiny rodents don’t quite do it for dogs; Pablo the dog is the exception because he is mad whiny) so I don’t enjoy this one as much as the talking cats one a while back. But I tend to think a pissed off dog would be drawing blood instead of panting happily.

Someone tell that sadistic idiot to stop teasing and tormenting that puppy!! Cute Overload should know better than to post it.

longtimelurker, your comment bothers me more than any of the other posts. I also think that this is not animal abuse, but you are being really mean and I don’t think that CO needs posters who call other posters stupid.

I meant that I agree with Jenben that he sounds like a Dolphin, sorry!!!