INJURED dogs and heartbreaking accounts of how they became victims of abuse are all over social media with images of them looking like "bags of bones".
There is a plethora of heartbreaking images on Facebook of abused dogs from across the globe.
Dogs every day are being tortured in South Korea because of a belief that tortured dog meat tasted batter than regular dog meat.A petition to save the dogs said: "Dogs in slaughterhouses are burned, beaten, dismembered, strangled, electrocuted and hanged, mostly while they are still alive."
I cried like a baby. My heart just fell and broke
Dog meat is popular in South Korea and Asia.
Another story which over 600,000 people have read across the world is about a dog who was abused and left in a bin.
The lifeless dog was given therapy by Newark Animal Control Centre and he emerged from a lifeless, severely emaciated bag of bones into a healthy animal again.In Portland in America, a chihuahua is recovering after being attacked by a cougar earlier this month.Owner, Marilyn Rentz said: "I thought she was dead."I was crying and talking to her and pretty soon she rolled her eyes over to me. "
Possibly the best use of old jeans ever: a lap pillow.
In May, a dog was injured and eventually died in a beating by an energy company contractor.
Another viral story is about an abused dog who after being shown love for the first time cried .
When Facebook user Tina Zellmer saw the video, she said: "I cried like a baby. My heart just fell and broke. I wanted to hold him and love him. Good news at the end."Some concerning images show emaciated dogs from Spain who have been abused for years and then thrown out of a moving van.In 2015, a Brazilian bin man was sacked after thawing an injured dog into a rubbish track.