You always have to be careful judging things based on a video.
Pretty much anyone if they were filmed with their animal 24/7 could find a video edited to make you look like an inhuman animal hater who should never be allowed near a dog. Accidentally step on your dog's paw or tail while working around the house (something that's happened to pretty much everyone at one time or another) and add some creative editing, and you could be made to look incredibly bad. If an editor wished to destroy you they could use earlier (or later) footage of you looking down at the dog and edit that to make it look like you're intentionally looking for the dog's paw/tail to step on. Edit in you laughing earlier or later in the day, and they could make it look like you were laughing at stepping on your dog. In truth you may have been very upset to step on your dog and immediately stooped down to check on your pup and comfort him, but if that was edited out and they only showed the bad parts, you'd have people ready to burn you at the stake and label you a heartless animal hater.
Reports now indicate that the video as shown was filmed on two different days. On day one the dog clearly did not want to get in the water, rebelled, and didn't end up going into the water. That took what? Twenty seconds? According to multiple reports he'd been trained and rehearsed this stunt on multiple occasions previously with no trouble but when it was appparent he wouldn't go in, they aborted filming for that day and gave him a day to calm down and try again. The next day he reportedly readily jumped in and performed as he'd been trained to perform. then went under when he reached the end of the pool where they quickly intervened to rescue him.
Unless you have the raw, unedited video complete with time stamps, you can never be sure that what you're seeing is what really happened. Those releasing the video tried to make everyone believe that all of the tape they showed took place on one day. It was the panicked dog forced into the pool and then nearly drowning at the end. In fact, the dog never actually went into the pool the first day. The trainer tried and then after twenty to thirty seconds the effort stopped and the dog was removed from the set and everything shut down for the day. The next day the dog happily dived in and performed as trained ony to have his head go under at the end at which point the dive team was already moving in to help him out.
You can never trust edited video to show you the truth. It shows you what the editors want you to see. Unless you have the raw footage to look at with time stamps, what you're seeing is what the editors want you to see. Anyone on this forum could have videos of them shot and edited to make you look like a heartless animal hater. It's not that hard. Was the dog harmed? Not according to anyone involved in the filming, or who was on the set at the time. The video is very disturbing, but it was edited to be very disturbing. It wasn't edited to necessarily tell you the truth of what happened. Let a real investigation take place before condemning anyone involved. Maybe there was abuse, but edited videos are not the ideal way of determining the truth.
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