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Horrifying footage captured the moment a man cackled as his two dogs mauled a kangaroo joey to death after it hopped over the fence of his property.
The video, which is too graphic to share, captured the alarming incident unfold on a rural property in Australia.
The footage was live-streamed to social media users on TikTok and showed the moment the canines pounced on the helpless animal.
The dogs were seen dragging the kangaroo along the ground while their owner laughed without trying to intervene.
Footage sparked outrage among social media users while Indigenous elders slammed the act saying it was a clear sign of disrespect.
Horrifying footage captured the moment a man cackled as his two dogs mauled a kangaroo joey to death after it hopped over the fence of his property
One woman who watched the live-stream held her hands over her mouth and urged the man to stop filming and step in.
‘Help the kangaroo! What are you doing?’ she said.
The man, who appeared to be wearing a cowboy hat, hit back at her concerns by telling her he lives on a rural property.
‘We live on a farm brother… shoosh,’ he said.
The video also showed a woman pick up the kangaroo by the tail before she banged its head against a wooden surface on the ground.
One dog attempted to bite at the kangaroo while the woman kept swinging the animal around.
‘Is the kangaroo still alive?’ one person who was watching the live-stream asked.
‘No, I don’t think so,’ another said.
The woman later took the kangaroo inside the home before she placed the creature on the couch as the head of the joey rocked back.
The video is understood to have been live-streamed on TikTok for at least 10 minutes. The clip has since been taken down.
One woman, who was watching the live-stream, said she was shocked the video was allowed to be shared on social media.
Several social media users (pictured) who watched the live-stream were left distressed by the incident
‘It was heartbreaking to watch and I was absolutely stunned it was happening for those 10 mins,’ she told Yahoo.
‘I think everyone who watched couldn’t believe what was happening.’
Dozens said it was distressing to watch the man just stand by and laugh at the heinous act.
‘That’s sad man…you just destroyed a kangaroo,’ one wrote.
The man who filmed the dogs attacking the kangaroo said people were overreacting to the incident.
‘Yous [sic] are all taking it out of proportion mate,’ he said.
He claimed he was Indigenous and said Indigenous people often eat kangaroo tail.
Indigenous elders however said the man disrespected the creature by laughing while it was getting attacked.
‘We value our totemic species better than that,’ one said.
‘Kangaroos are a high value totemic species.’
He also said there are certain rules that must be followed according to Indigenous culture when people hunt and kill kangaroos as a food source.
Kangaroos are an important part of Indigenous culture as they feature in many Dreamtime Stories and cultural rituals performed in communities.
A TikTok spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia the account where the video was uploaded to was suspended for a week as it had breached guidelines.
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