Remember the heartbreaking story of Tintin the puppy? That adorable and innocent three-legged animal who was abandoned on the street while desperately trying to follow his owner.
The scenes were captured in Sao Leopoldo, a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.
A white car can be seen parked on the side of a deserted road, from which a woman gets out and immediately drags a white dog that only has three legs.
Two criminals for one victim…! It all started when, after an argument between a couple, the wife took out her anger by simply throwing the dog out onto the street in front of her husband’s workplace.
Well, it seems justice takes time, but it always comes. And today, the former Tintin perpetrators have been fully identified and reported to the police.
According to Anderson Ribeiro, a member of the Municipal Secretariat for Animal Protection (Sempa), the woman and her partner will respond to the charges against them. They will do so before the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Municipal Secretariat of the Environment of São Leopoldo, for the crimes of unfair treatment and animal rejection.
Ribeiro also confirmed that witnesses have been summoned to testify. The penalty for animal abuse ranges from three months to one year in prison and a fine.
It caused such a stir and outpouring of solidarity that even the famous television presenter Tatá Werneck, as well as several Internet users, offered to adopt Tintin.
Fortunately, just one day after the video was posted, the animal charity Patas Guerreras took in the dog.
The images that were later shared on Twitter showed Tintin looking very handsome and recovered.
The organization said Tintin is doing “exceptionally well,” given the horrific circumstances in which he was abandoned.
They also noted that the disabled dog is receiving plenty of love and care from his new owners, just as he deserves.
Now he seems happy and as healthy as ever.
Cuddled by his new owners, the handsome boy seems to have finally found his forever home and true happiness.
And both the whole world and the adorable Tintin can rest assured that he will never be mistreated again because his former owners will pay for it with jail time.