By Morgan Adderley
Tribune Staff Reporter
madderley@tribunemedia.net
A VIDEO circulating on social media depicting a man encouraging a dog, believed to be a pit bull, to kill a smaller dog sparked outrage on Thursday.
The three minute two second clip shows the larger dog viciously attacking and biting the neck of the smaller dog and dragging it into the sea, while the smaller dog screams and yelps.
The person filming the video can clearly be heard encouraging the attack and claiming that this is not the first dog fight the pit bull has won.
“That’s three under the belt! Good boy, good boy. He kill that one, he kill that one. That’s three under the belt,” he can be heard repeating.
After a beat, he adds another to the dog’s kill list, saying: “No that’s four. That’s four under the belt. Cause yesterday that was the third one, yea. And today a fourth one.”
Kim Aranha, president of the Bahamas Humane Society, called the video “terrible and disgusting”.
“This is exactly the kind behaviour that makes people dislike pit bulls and pit bull owners.”
“I’m urging the pit bull and the bully community to come out and condemn this, because really they are the ones who need to protect their own reputation.”
Mrs Aranha added that more investigating has to be done into the video, to determine whether it took place in New Providence or another Family Island, as well as to ascertain when the incident occurred.
“We are totally opposed to this. We plan to go to the police.”
Earlier this month, another video went viral on social media showing a man brutally killing a sea turtle in Grand Bahama.
The 41-second video shows a man crushing the turtle’s head with a hammer while the animal tries to escape.
Three people were later charged with possession of a marine turtle under Section 29A of the Fisheries Resources Regulations and Section 24 Subsection (1) of the Fisheries Resources Act Chapter 244.
They were given a conditional discharge, ordered to perform 500 hours of community service, and attend a voluntary intervention programme at Magistrate’s Court.
The Bahamas National Trust and many activists expressed anger at the “lenient” sentencing, saying the maximum fine of $3000 or a year imprisonment (or both) should have been imposed on the perpetrators.
Comments
FreeportFreddy 6 years ago
Frickin unbelievable ignorance!!!
When will this country join the CURRENT century???
BMW 6 years ago
Wondering when we might get out of 4th world mentality! He should have a pit bull attack him.
sunseeker 6 years ago
Yep, this dog owner is class A loser. Put him in jail and take his dog away from.. Absolute garbage pos human being..
sunseeker 6 years ago
Total loser this guy is.. Put him in jail and take his dog away from him.. People like this make me sick..
DDK 6 years ago
Sick a pit bull on him! TRIBUNE, please do let us know when the perpetrator is arrested and fined and or jailed.
paul_vincent_zecchino 6 years ago
Please apprehend this walking demon - that's right, I said it - and lock him down for the rest of his evil, moronic life.
The LINK, as it's known, between cruelty to animals and homicide has long been proven. Every serial killer began by torturing and killing small animals.
The jug-eared pile of feces who was well known the FBI and the Broward Sheriffs and who shot up the school recently began in same way, by torturing small animals.
If they'll do this to a turtle or dog, they'll surely do likewise to a human, if they haven't already so done.
Might it be unreasonable to request a just a few moments alone with this gutless punk?
Thank you.
sheeprunner12 6 years ago
Is there any outrage over Haitian cock-fighting in the shanty towns??????????
Economist 6 years ago
Can you get a video or two and send it to the Bahamas Humane Society? I am sure they will push to police to do something.
Gotoutintime 6 years ago
Less than human!!
truetruebahamian 6 years ago
No problem seeing him dead
BahamaRed 6 years ago
People that abuse animals in any way are disgusting and scum.
Point blank period...
TheMadHatter 6 years ago
All pit bulls should be banned. A deadline for registering existing pit bulls should be made May 10th and all found after that date unregistered should be put to death.
Pit bulls are not dogs. They are pit bulls. Tigers are not dogs either. They are tigers.
hrysippus 6 years ago
Actually MadHater, pitbulls are dogs, but you are correct that tigers are tigers. sigh, D-.
sheeprunner12 6 years ago
Most US States have already banned super-bred pitbulls ....... these 200 pound killers are like AK47s ........ not for civilian use or ownership
ashley14 6 years ago
Dog fighting, Cock fighting, it's all mean and inhumane. I had two pit bulls, both raised from babies. Spoiled rotten, the female turned on us. She didn't have a chance to hurt us because I got rid of her before she did. She was mean in the end. I don't know why, other then it's in their DNA. Why would we want to watch something so mean.
joeblow 6 years ago
People often look at actions as though they occur in a vacuum. This young man was most likely raised in a single parent home and developed his calloused mentality from not being properly raised and loved by his parents, suffering physical and emotional abuse etc. Willing to bet he smokes marijuana as well.
This is an indictment of failed parenting and the explosion of single parent homes with unfit parents. Good sensible children are not an accident, they are the result of lots of time, effort and hard work, guiding them to become responsible, compassionate individuals. This young mans actions are simply evidence of a much larger social problem nobody wants to address because in their own way, many contribute to the slackness that allows these kinds of individuals to flourish in our society!!!
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