Football fans on Twitter are now attempting to cancel Cristiano Ronaldo after a video of him chucking his dog into a swimming pool came to light.
Ever since the video of Kurt Zouma abusing his cat began to circulate, the topic of animal welfare has been an unusually prevalent one within the football community on social media.
That has resulted in some fans doing their digging, with a video of Cristiano Ronaldo ‘playing’ with his dog being unearthed – and some fans not being best impressed with it.
Hello @ManUtd @Nike I expect action with the UTMOST urgency on this pic.twitter.com/Elv6FmWANz
— tom (@tswhu1) February 10, 2022
@MirrorDarren I’m guessing that throwing a dog into a pool and making it swim for it’s life is okay because it’s Ronaldo doing it! 🤔
— Richie ⚒ (@EssexRichie) February 10, 2022
@talkSPORT @talkRADIO @SkySportsNews looks like animal abuse to me. Throwing the Dog in the water to swim for its life when it doesn’t want to go in, do you fancy publicly condemning this action for two days and whipping up some Twitter outrage over this?
— Ray Coster (@coster_ray) February 10, 2022
Speak up @GaryLineker @Mrjamieohara1 ronaldo dog is more in a life threatening situation that what kurt zouma cats! Both was wrong… why have you both gone quite, my question is whats the difference is it because Zouma black and Ronaldo white, or due to the popularity difference
— Jay Bedell (@JayBedell) February 10, 2022
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There is, of course, a fundamental difference here.
Ronaldo is having fun with his dog, a breed of dog which enjoys swimming and is perfectly capable of doing so, as CR7 will have known prior to chucking it into the water.
Cats do not enjoy being kicked and slapped. They are not designed to be kicked and slapped. Zouma’s abhorrent actions cannot be compared to Ronaldo playing with his dog.
What’s our view, anyway, what’s yours?
Hatty dog on a flicker
Bullshit allegations, these dogs love water an even in the cr7 movie you can see he plays with him like that, yes zouma kicked a cat bit it was purely unintentional people need to stop hating, the fans 9f some clubs are the worst, they run to racism when some1 in a different skin colour does anything that beats their team…grow tf up guys, racism is unnecessary #stopracism