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Doggie Controversy...

... and the need for more skepticism

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Doggie Controversy...
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Last week, TMZ leaked video from the set of the movie A Dog's Purpose. It shows one of their dogs and it's handler and how it was scared to get into the water. However, eventually they complete the scene.

People were immediately outraged, people calling for the boycott of the movie and for the instance to be investigated. The outrage rivals and surpasses many instances and videos of Police Brutality or other instances of human vs. human abuse.

Which doesn't surprise me, as Society seems to care more about animals that get killed in movies rather than any human characters.

Now I don't justify or approve of animal cruelty in any shape or form. I'm a proud dog owner, one of which was a rescue. But people should look closer at the video. To me, it looks like a handler dipping the dogs paw and then body to show it that the water wasn't actually as bad as it appeared, showing it that the handler would pull it back up.

Then, we get a cut in the video, moving from that scene to the next. We don't know if any time has occurs between the two pieces, of video. It could be a different day, the dog could have been totally fine with getting into the water after some time to desensitize itself and become more comfortable.

Not to mention that at this point in time, now that the movie is just days away from being released, that this video had to have happen a long, long time ago. Most of the movie is probably edited and finished. Whoever had this video, literally waited until the last second to sell it to TMZ, either in an attempt to get publicity, or to hurt the movie. (The latter seeming to be the actual effect.) And the movie is having a third party investigation into this incident. If there was any cruelty I hope justice is served, but part of me hopes it's nothing.

To me, this seems to be a perfect example of people just trusting any click-bait source. As our technology becomes more and more advanced, and more and more sources come out, people are going to be vigilant and skeptical of any story they come across. I've been guilty about filling in the blanks off of minimal information, have you?

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