Videos of animals on social networks usually accumulate thousands of visits and reactions. Dano2137’s TikTok account recently posted a video titled “Dog teases each other’s paws.” In it two dogs appeared walking in a corridor of a house, one with short legs and another that did so by rubbing its belly on the ground, as if imitating the other.
The fact that one dog imitated the other has caused many users to react to the images with emoticons of faces crying with laughter. Instead, other users charged against the owner of the video, for alleging that one of the dogs was mocking another.
“They are precious, he is not mocking, he is imitating him,” said the user Melani R in one of the comments. “The little animals are like that,” pointed out another tiktoker after stressing that it was not a joke.
This video accumulates more than 430,000 views, 35,500 ‘likes’ and 190 comments. Among them, there are those who see in the images a sample of bullying, due to the fact that one made fun of another. “That is dog bullying,” said user Rodríguez Joya.
More netizens spoke in a similar way with comments such as “no bullying, please”, or “even they bully themselves”. In addition, there are those who pointed out that this situation was not funny at all.
Science indicates, as a dog’s brain is made up, there is no room for malice or intentional harm. That is, they cannot make fun of another dog, for example. So it is the interpretation that the human being does that does have this capacity to give rise to the phrase that one dog mocks another.
