A French animal rights group has stolen a homeless man’s dog in scenes caught on devastating footage.
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The video has since been viewed more than 1.2 million times and shared 19,551 times.
Many viewers were outraged by the footage but Cause Animale Nord, the activist group who purportedly removed the animal, later uploaded a photo to their Facebook page appearing to show the seized dog, adding that it was taken because its owner was a gypsy who used it for begging.
The distressed man desperately tries to get the animal back but it is passed to an unseen person and taken away before he can do anything. It bears a caption that appears to confirm Mr Duc’s claim. We have withdrawn to a rom who used it for begging.
The group, Cause Animale Nord, later posted an explanation for stealing the puppy, now dubbed Vegan, on their Facebook page which translated as: “Vegan (name in memory of our convictions), Little dog, rescue of this day when walking let their skin to animals in Paris”.
They have put it up for adoption for a fee of €195 (£144) and describe it as “full of joy and playful”. You too can take action, it just takes a little courage.
A man and woman are caught on camera approaching the homeless man, before the man scoops up the yelping puppy.
“I don’t like how you caused this man grief and terrorised the little dog”, one user, Salengret Corrine, commented.
The group posted:”It wasn’t a homeless guy but a Roma…”
The petition organisers said the group operated outside the boundaries of its charter, which does not allow for animals to be removed from their owners without prior notice.
But Cause Animale Nord have defended themselves. “That’s what they did by violently attacking a homeless person to remove his puppy around the Chatelet area of Paris”, the petition reads.
“The little dog was afraid to walk in the grass because she’d only ever known the pavement”.
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Cause Animal Nord’s official website claims it is dedicated to “abolition of all forms of cruelty to animals”.
