Update: Tortured Texas Puppy is Safe, Charges Filed

UPDATE (February 10, 2025): Thank you to all who spoke out! Authorities reached out to PETA to confirm that the puppy is currently in their custody. Per this Facebook post made by the Sheriff’s Office, the individual involved has been booked with a felony charge of cruelty to a non-livestock animal, and the victim is currently in stable condition.

Original post (February 7, 2025):

The viral video below, reportedly captured February 6 on Stratford Arms Lane in Sugar Land, Texas, features a young man viciously attacking a screaming puppy. While gripping the terrified animal’s back leg, he viciously slams them, repeatedly, into a jagged firewood pile, before kicking his victim in the sides, again and again. Bizarrely, the unhinged man then lowers his yowling victim into what appears to be a hole in the ground and sits on them, at which point the puppy’s cries of terror fall frighteningly silent.

WARNING: The following video is disturbing.

Although PETA caseworkers were glad to hear from officials that the matter was under investigation, we received zero assurances that this horrifically abused puppy has been or will be seized, or that cruelty-to-animals will be filed in this clearly criminal case.