OH, GOD, NO!!!!!! That is f****** insane, sorry.(what am I apologizing for? lol I am fighting mad!!)
First off..........I really felt in the first few seconds, from what I could see on the video (who knows what came before they started filming), the dog was
just lying there. I didn't see him fighting or biting her or anything. His ears were UP and forward not back, which portrayed more interest to me than fight mode. He was on his side, not snapping or moving....She actually seemed to have a somewhat loose leash with him laying there. She should have STOPPED....to show that that was acceptable and be somewhat of a 'reward'. Stop the momentum and see if he regains composure. Instead, she whips him at the wall when I didn't see any fight in him (the second whip) AND, she
whipped him at the wall, not kicked him TO the wall, she f****** whipped him at the wall! That sound was him hitting the wall.
Then he was on the floor again, and again I didn't see him fighting back? I think he may have snapped at her, I'm not sure. But she seemed to keep putting her hands on him or near him. Maybe she was trying to put him on his side (Cesar) or doing a finger poke, IDK but it wasn't working and she, IMO, was making it worse and putting
herself in harms way.
SO she whipped him AGAIN! IMO again, I think she is escalating the situation more than the dog. She is not giving the dog a chance to respond. Or calm down. And then she SWINGS him again and again against the wall. O...M...G
OK, I 've watched that F****** thing four times and I cannot take one more time. But I am trying to really give a constructive answer here. But I STILL feel that in the beginning, she had ample opportunity to gain control over the situation. The dog WAS ON THE GROUND! On the ground and she kept pulling him up and still, in my opinion, making it worse. I think it was after the second slam (I'm not watching that thing again!) that it really looked like the dog went after her. I would too!! Then she swings it over and over and I then want to grab her around her neck.
Where in the video did you *(Suzan) see that the sound was her kicking the dog to the wall??? I never saw that. All I saw was her swinging a small dog, (that even I feel confident that I can control in my very limited experience) by the leash, off the ground, and taking a long, hard swing. No one will ever convince me that that is the correct way to handle this.
She has a leash on the dog. Number one. Very important. You have some control. I don't know what she was trying to accomplish, so that's number two. Was she trying to just get the dog in a crate? I don't think that's very hard. You have a leash on a 20lb dog. I'm sure they have a stick like the dog catchers with the hoop at the end? Why couldn't they try that and just put the dog in the crate and tie the leash on something so that they still have control to either get the dog out or pull the dog to the crate to administer a sedative. Even without the dog catcher thing I think she could have maneuvered that dog by the leash to a lower crate like they have in Vets office. Use a stick or something. I don't think it would be that hard.
Even if she was trying to control the dog for an examination, the above would work, because without a sedative you are never going to be able to accomplish that. I doubt the dog was there for 'training'. If it were, she's wrong on that too.
I forget who said it, but also taking it for a walk might diffuse the situation a bit. Not knowing the history of this dog or what the intent of the tech was, puts us at a disadvantage. I realize how things can be taken out of context and a short video like this doesn't tell the whole story. But again, its a 20 lb dog. You have a leash on it. You can easily hold that dogs head up and away from you. Give the damn dog a chance to relax and calm. I still say the tech escalated the situation. And every time I watched it it sickened me. I would press charges if I saw someone do that to my dog.