A video showing a brown stray dog being forcibly pushed into a crate with poles at Seletar Farmway has gone viral, sparking outrage from animal lovers who say the dogs were handled too harshly.
The clips, posted by Instagram user @germtay on Nov 14, showed what she described as a dog-catching operation at a nursery in Seletar West Farmway.
One of her first posts showed a lorry labelled “wildlife management, wildlife consultancy and bird management”, with the caption: “AVS sent 4 lorries to catch all the dogs here when it was not proved who bit the stranger who reported.”
She added: “They also refuse to say how will the dogs be treated and where they will go.”
Dog pushed into crate with poles
Another video she filmed showed a brown dog resisting capture as two men used poles to push it hard into a crate. The dog appeared to bite one of the poles. One of the men forced its head down so it could not lift itself out of the crate.
“The dogs were so scared,” germtay wrote, showing stains on the floor.
She also said: “This old dog was already injured and now he can’t stand up after the shock,” adding that she spotted blood nearby.
In another story, she lamented: “I’m sorry, I should have hidden you. This crate is not even big enough for you.”
She said one of the dogs was about 10 years old and walked with a limp, tagging NParks and AVS to “please let us know if they are safe and what will you do with them”.
Her stories were later reposted by Wake Up Singapore, immediately drawing fierce reactions online. Many netizens called the scenes “heartbreaking” and questioned the training of the men involved.
