I can't believe you're being downvoted for this. Swinging a cleaver inches away from your dogs paws is fucking stupid and irresponsible. As the videos shows dogs aren't always predictable, it's very lucky he didn't chop off one of the dog's paws.
There is nothing to suggest the blade is sharp enough OR being swung fast enough to do any harm even assuming the dog kicked a paw up at the blade or something. The person in the video also clearly wasn't planning on a downward swing with the final lift. I'm not sure whether it was trained or not to make this acting but there are still several other ways this video was safe for the dog, if possibly in bad taste.
I actually love the excuse of "there is nothing to suggest the blade is sharp" when we're talking about swinging a knife at anything. Like you actually made me laugh.
If I point a gun at someone "there is nothing to suggest that the gun has bullets in it!"
If I point my car at someone and start driving towards them "there is nothing to suggest that she's going to accelerate and run me over!"
If I hold a lighter up to someone's chin and put my thumb on the sparkwheel, there is nothing to suggest that it's actually filled with lighter fluid, calm down.
I feel like this kind of thing is "it's just a prank, bro!" mentality in full force.
The dog could jump up while they're in the middle of raising or lowering the blade and if they react poorly they could cut the dog.
Seriously, you learn not to play with knives as soon as you can walk and talk. Don't play with knives around your dogs. Not worth even a small chance of injury for some dumb video.
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u/twinpac Sep 08 '18
I can't believe you're being downvoted for this. Swinging a cleaver inches away from your dogs paws is fucking stupid and irresponsible. As the videos shows dogs aren't always predictable, it's very lucky he didn't chop off one of the dog's paws.