According to a passer-by, he saw a helpless dog being dragged behind a Ford Transit diesel engine<\/strong><\/a> powered van,driven around an industrial estate. That dreadful moment was captured by that passer-by on the Fenton Industrial Estate, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.<\/p>\n He further added that there were some passengers sitting in the back of the van and they were laughing at the poor dog who was forced to do several laps behind the van.<\/p>\n The images taken on Tuesday at 6:30 pm were released by the RSPCA<\/strong><\/a> to track down the perpetrators who intentionally tortured the poor dog. Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, if anyone is caught and prosecuted for purposefully harming any animal could face a six-months prison or a fine of up to \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n Charlotte Melvin, RSPCA inspector said that \u201cthe caller told us he had seen the van circling the industrial estate three times with a dog being dragged behind, and that the people inside the vehicle were laughing.\u201d Inspector further added \u201cthese roads are Tarmac surfaces and I\u2019d imagine the dog\u2019s feet would have been a painful mess after this awful ordeal\u201d. The caller told inspector that someone was sitting in the back of the\u00a0transit van<\/strong><\/a> with its back doors open dragging the dog behind it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dog looked really exhausted after that inhuman treatment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cassie Fletcher, a trustee of Animal Lifeline branded the action \u201cdespicable\u201d and said: \u201cIt\u2019s lower than low. To do something like this is beyond belief. If the dog was on a lead, it had no option but to follow the van. It\u2019s so cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A passer-by captured some pictures in the Fenton Industrial Estate in Stoke where passengers in the van forced the dog to do three laps What happened? According to a passer-by, he saw a helpless dog being dragged behind a Ford Transit diesel engine powered van,driven around an industrial estate. That dreadful moment was captured by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,2],"tags":[154,11,69,153,29,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Are they captured?<\/h3>\n
What animal welfare campaigners say?<\/h3>\n