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Porn Dogs? Disturbing Video Trend Online Raises Animal Abuse to a Sickening New Level

Craven pet owners posting "dog porn" videos online are evading obscenity filters with benign titles and descriptions.

By Reid MoorePublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Craven pet owners are successfully uploading "porn dog" videos online with benign titles and descriptions intended to evade obscenity filters. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Dog lovers often turn to the web for their daily fill of videos showing cute puppies, funny dog behavior, clips of dogs acting surprisingly human and, unfortunately, stories of abandoned dogs with (hopefully) a last chance for adoption by a caring human.

Most of these videos are aimed at bringing a moment of joy to the viewer, or tugging at the sympathetic heart of someone with the means of caring for, and even adopting, abandoned dogs who have been left to fend for themselves in an increasingly heartless society.

But, dog porn?

Most people surfing video sharing sites are, presumably, not looking for pornographic videos showing dogs having sex with humans.

But, because of a disturbing, new trend, it's embarrassingly easy to stumble across horrifying "porn dog" videos, due to benign, friendly language used in titles and descriptions intended to avoid being flagged by robotic obscenity filters.

However, even searching on the simple keyword "dog" surfaces a flood of disturbing video content depicting women (and men) having sex with their pets.

Obviously, YouTube is the main target of this despicable trend. But, surfing other popular video sharing sites like Vimeo, Dailymotion and LiveLeak can end with the same results.

Presumably, video uploaders using obvious language, including keywords and phrases such as "dog porn" or "dog sex" or even "bestiality" would be filtered out before the video is successfully posted.

In fact, some subscribers to video sharing sites have expressed frustration that obscenity filters sometimes go too far in interpreting the intent of uploaders, since keyword filtering programs are generally not monitored by humans in real time.

However, keywords and keyphrases such as, "amazing lovely girl" or "dog lover" are, apparently, successfully evading those robotic language filters and making it through to the results page, even if only until they are flagged by outraged viewers or discovered by human editors, who, hopefully, delete the deeply offensive videos immediately.

But, it appears that at least some of these videos can, and do, remain on video sharing sites well beyond a typical 24-to-72 hour cycle covering normal work weeks and weekends.

In addition, as part of these evasive uploading tactics, video thumbnails which make it through to the results page are selected to deceive well-intentioned dog video lovers looking for a few moments of joy, laughter or compassion.

Deceptively cropping thumbnail images to make them appear acceptable is a common technique. Most make it seem as if the video is just another example of dog owners proudly sharing their lives with a beloved pet.

Less frequently, thumbnails are blurred to an extent which makes it seem that the video is of lesser quality.

But, in the end, the strategy is succeeding and results in unsuspecting animal lovers being subjected to horrifying and disgusting images of dog owners abusing their pets on a new level of sickening depravity.

The outcome, for most adults, is one that can at least be handled with outraged disgust. Or, more appropriately, reacting with the means to flag and report this nefarious activity.

But, what of minors surfing video sharing sites, who can innocently click on these obscene, mind altering images?

Obviously, this issue touches on free speech and expression using the increasingly powerful tools of video social media.

But, considering the harm being done to animals and people alike, perhaps it's time to address this degenerate activity with more vigorous censoring and the tightening of robotic filters "fooled" into allowing obscene images to be included in public searches on popular video sharing sites.

In the meantime, be careful of what you ask for when searching for "dog lover" videos online.

You may not like what you find...

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Reid Moore

I am a Freelance Writer living in Riverside California who writes on a wide variety of topics including News, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Music, Fiction, Poetry and Art.

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