protest

The link to this petition recirculates periodically, most often accompanied by the photo of a dog with large hooks impaled through its snout.

Circulating protest message decries the “disgusting and un-patriotic” decision of a UK school to ban the wearing of Help for Heroes armbands by pupils after Easter, 2012.

Circulating message that features a photograph depicting pigs confined to very small cages claims that the photograph was taken on an American factory farm and that the pigs are kept in the tight cages so that they will fatten up more quickly because their movement is restricted.

Circulating social media message includes a graphic and disturbing image of a German Shepherd with its face partially blown off after youths placed a firecracker in its mouth. The message asks users to share if they are against the mistreatment of animals.