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

A photograph circulating via social media that appears to show a puppy being forced to drink vodka from a bottle by a heavily tattooed young man, asks people to try to identify the man so that he can be reported for animal cruelty.

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 protesting the cruel treatment of circus elephants features as evidence a photograph of a baby elephant beside its mother.

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 message that contains a photograph of a police officer spraying mace at a young girl asks recipients to repost the information in the hope that the officer can be identified and dealt with.

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.

Protest message claims that, every Friday, many Muslims pray on Madison Avenue and other streets of New York, thereby blocking streets and disrupting traffic.

Email claims that attached photographs depict a protest in London at which Muslim demonstrators displayed placards with violent and inflammatory slogans.

Email that calls for a stop to a supposed “attack against nature” on the beaches of Costa Rica claims that a series of attached photographs depict crowds of people digging up and stealing turtle eggs that they will later sell.