A dog owner in Italy has been accused of training their canine to dump bags of rubbish on the side of a road.
Video footage released by police shows a small dog leisurely walking down a road in Catania’s San Giorgio district in Sicily carrying a bag of rubbish in its mouth before dropping it.
Local police in Catania, Italy have released videos that show a dog dumping a bag of rubbish on the road twice.
It is alleged the animal was trained to do so, in an attempt to prevent the owner from being caught throwing away the trash illegally.
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