joseph vilanova

STEEEL INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORTATION.

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

Muchas gracias Victor.

[TheJoyConnection + @Strategiceye127]

He was barely clinging to life when someone rescued him. One year later, he was healthy, happy, and enjoying the life he deserved. 🐶❤️

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@Melissa_Bely Najayote de cargador de refrescos qué tanto odia la encargada de palacio "nacional" Pobre Ricachon.

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@ryo_hermoso

[̶P̶A̶R̶L̶A̶ 🇹🇷 @PARLA2a7]

Sahiplerinden çalınan 7 köpek (hepsi mahalleden arkadaşlar) bir Corgi önderliğinde kilitli kamyondan kaçarak tam 17 kilometre yürüyüp evlerine geri dönmüşler …

Bu gerçekten mucizevi bir olay 🥹🙏 🐾 🐶

[محمد سالم @M10M199]

التعاون قوة 👍

[Beyond Daily @KieuPhan120820]

In 2019, Toni spotted a badly burned koala struggling through the bushfires. Without a second thought, she stopped, took off her shirt, and rushed to save it. ❤️🐨

[Momentos Virales @momentoviral]

Mientras combatían el incendio en Tolima, soldados rescataron a un coatí con quemaduras. En medio del fuego, también salvaron una vida. ❤️

[animalitos que alegran el día @lomitosyamigos]

Tiene 18 años, amaba jugar bajo la lluvia pero ahora es ciego, solo quiere volver a sentir esa felicidad.

[Latido Terrestre @NaturPictures]

Un joven en Tailandia paró a comprar una bebida en la carretera y terminó reencontrándose con su perro perdido 🐕 El destino a veces nos pone en el lugar correcto en el momento menos pensado.

[Earth Unveiled @Mrdimasta420]

Nobody warns you about the sound a dying puppy makes when it realizes someone finally stopped.

It's not a bark. It's not even a whimper. It's silence — the kind that hits harder than any noise ever could.

I need you to sit with that for a second before you scroll past this.

Because somewhere, right now, in a city you've probably never thought about, a puppy is lying on concrete that's colder than it should be, in a position that shouldn't be possible for a living body, and every single person walking by is telling themselves the same lie: "someone else will help."

Nobody else is coming.

That's the part people don't want to hear. There is no invisible network of rescuers patrolling every street corner on earth. There is no guarantee. There is only whoever happens to look down at the right second and decides — actually decides, on purpose, against every excuse their brain hands them — to stop.

I've spent years around rescue accounts, rescue communities, rescue chaos. And if there's one thing that never stops breaking something open in me, it's this: the gap between "before" and "after" is never as far as people think. It's not months. It's not years. Sometimes it's hours. Sometimes it's one bowl of water and one blanket and one person who didn't look away.

The video below is one of those hours.

I'm not going to explain what happens in it. I'm not going to summarize it, narrate it, or tell you the ending. If I did that, you'd just nod, feel a flicker of something, and keep scrolling — and this isn't one of those stories that deserves to be flattened into a caption. Some things you have to actually watch, in real time, to feel what they're supposed to make you feel.

What I will tell you is this: by the last few seconds, you will not believe it's the same animal from the first few seconds. And that gap — that impossible, almost unfair-feeling gap between where this story starts and where it ends — is the entire reason rescue videos have quietly become one of the most watched categories of content on the internet.

Nobody talks about why. So let's talk about why.

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THE THREE TYPES OF PEOPLE ON EVERY STREET

Every single time an animal is suffering in public, in front of witnesses, there are exactly three types of people who pass by.

The first type doesn't notice. Genuinely, chemically, doesn't register it. Their brain has learned to filter out suffering that isn't "their problem" the same way it filters out a stranger's cough or a parked car. This isn't cruelty. It's just how overloaded human attention works in a city.

The second type notices, feels something sharp and uncomfortable, and immediately starts building a case for why it's not their responsibility. "I don't have a car." "I don't know any vets." "What if it bites me." "Someone more qualified will handle it." Every excuse is technically true and completely irrelevant, because none of them require the animal to actually be okay — they only require the person to feel okay about walking away.

The third type is rare. The third type feels the same discomfort as everyone else, has the same list of legitimate excuses available to them, and stops anyway. Not because they're braver. Not because they're more equipped. Just because somewhere along the way they decided that "I don't know how to fix this completely" is not the same thing as "I can't do anything at all."

Every single rescue video you've ever watched exists because, for one specific moment, one specific person refused to be type one or type two.

That's it. That's the whole secret. There's no special training required to be the reason a story doesn't end badly. There's just the willingness to not walk past.

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THE MATH NOBODY TELLS YOU

Here's something that will genuinely surprise you if you've never looked into it: saving a life on the street is dramatically cheaper than most people assume, and dramatically more expensive in time and emotional labor than most people assume. It's a strange trade.

A bowl of water costs nothing. A blanket, if you have one, costs nothing. The first hour of warmth and calm and quiet often costs nothing but presence. What costs something is what comes after — the vet visits, the medication, the sleepless nights checking if breathing has changed, the slow, exhausting, unglamorous process of rebuilding trust in a creature that has learned the world is dangerous.

People assume rescue is a single dramatic moment. It isn't. The dramatic moment is maybe five percent of the story. The other ninety-five percent is quiet, boring, repetitive care that nobody films because it doesn't look like anything — just a person, showing up, again and again, on days when it would be so much easier not to.

I think that's actually the most important part of any rescue story, and it's the part almost nobody talks about because it doesn't fit into fifteen seconds. The rescue isn't the moment someone picks the animal up off the ground. The rescue is every single day after that, stacked one on top of another, until one day the animal simply forgets to be afraid.

Watch the video with that in mind. What you're seeing isn't a moment. It's the compressed evidence of dozens of unglamorous, unfilmed days.

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WHY YOUR BRAIN CANNOT LOOK AWAY FROM THESE VIDEOS

There's actual psychology behind why rescue content spreads the way it does, and it has almost nothing to do with sadness.

Humans are wired with something researchers call "negativity bias" — we pay disproportionate attention to threat, suffering, and danger because, evolutionarily, missing a threat was far more costly than missing a reward. That's why the first few seconds of any rescue story grab you by the throat. Your brain isn't choosing to care. It's incapable of not caring, at least for a moment.

But negativity bias alone doesn't explain why people watch these videos more than once, why they send them to friends, why they sit through the uncomfortable part just to get to the end. That's a different mechanism entirely — something closer to what psychologists call "vicarious relief." When you watch someone else's suffering resolve into safety, your nervous system responds almost as if it happened to you. The tension you felt in the first ten seconds has to go somewhere, and when the story resolves well, it releases as something that feels suspiciously like hope.

That's the actual addictive ingredient in rescue content. It's not sadness. It's the release after the sadness. It's proof, delivered in real time, that terrible situations can flip into good ones faster than you'd think possible.

In a timeline full of arguments, outrage, bad news, and content designed to make you angry, a video that ends in relief is doing something almost nobody else on this platform is doing anymore. It's giving your nervous system permission to feel something other than dread.

That's not manipulation. That's just what happens when something real gets filmed.

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THE MYTHS THAT KEEP PEOPLE FROM STOPPING

Myth one: "It's probably already being taken care of." This is the single most common lie people tell themselves, and it's almost never true. If an animal is visibly suffering in public and multiple people are walking past it, the statistical likelihood that someone has already intervened is far lower than your brain wants you to believe.

Myth two: "I'll make it worse if I try to help without training." In reality, the two things that matter most in the first critical window — calm presence and basic comfort — require zero training. Water. Shade or warmth depending on the weather. A soft voice. Distance from immediate danger. That's not veterinary medicine. That's just decency.

Myth three: "One person can't actually make a difference." This is the myth that has ended more rescue stories before they began than any other. One person is, statistically, the only thing that has ever made a difference, in every single rescue story that has ever existed. Movements don't stop for suffering animals. Governments don't personally kneel down next to them. It is always, without exception, one individual person choosing to act.

Myth four: "If I get attached, it'll hurt too much." This one is actually true, and it's also irrelevant. Attachment hurting later is not a reason to withhold help now. It's a tax on caring, and it's a tax worth paying every single time.

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WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE FIRST HOUR

If you've never been close to a rescue in progress, here's what almost nobody tells you about that first hour: it is mostly about calm, not action.

A frightened, injured, or exhausted animal is running almost entirely on a threat-response system. Every fast movement reads as danger. Every loud sound reads as danger. Even kindness, delivered too quickly, can read as danger. The single most valuable thing a rescuer brings to that first hour isn't equipment. It's a nervous system that isn't panicking, next to a nervous system that is.

This is the part rescue videos compress into a few seconds but that, in real life, can take agonizingly long. Sitting still. Speaking low. Letting the animal decide, on its own timeline, that this particular human is not a threat. You cannot force trust. You can only make yourself boring enough, and safe enough, that trust becomes the path of least resistance.

Once that shift happens — once an animal that has only ever known danger from humans decides, for the first time, that one specific human might be different — something changes that's very hard to put into words. It's not just physical safety being restored. It's an entire belief system about the world getting quietly, permanently rewritten.

That shift is the actual turning point in every rescue story. Not the moment of being picked up. The moment of deciding to stop being afraid.

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THE PART OF RECOVERY NOBODY FILMS

Everyone loves the "after" photo. Clean fur, bright eyes, a wagging tail, a completely different creature from the one in the "before" photo. What almost nobody shows is the middle.

The middle is ugly, slow, and full of setbacks. It's an animal flinching at a raised hand because somewhere in its history a raised hand meant pain, even though this new human would never dream of hurting it. It's appetite that comes and goes. It's trust that gets built for three days and then evaporates because of one loud noise. It's the rescuer wondering, quietly, at 2 a.m., whether any of this is actually working.

And then, almost always without warning, there's a moment. A specific, unremarkable moment that the rescuer will remember forever and nobody else will ever understand the weight of — the first time the animal chooses to get close instead of staying away. The first tail wag that isn't fear-based. The first time it falls asleep in a way that says "I feel safe here" instead of "I am too exhausted to stay alert."

That moment is the real transformation. Everything after it is just confirmation.

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WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT

You've probably scrolled past hundreds of rescue videos in your life. Some blur together. Some you forget within the hour. And then, occasionally, one lands differently — not because the situation was more extreme, necessarily, but because something about the arc of it, start to finish, refuses to leave your head.

I'm not going to tell you which category this one falls into. That's not my call to make for you. What I'll say is that the transformation you're about to watch happens faster, and more completely, than most people expect is possible — and by the time you reach the end, you may find yourself replaying the first few seconds just to remind yourself that it's actually the same animal.

There's a specific kind of silence that happens in comment sections under videos like this. Not the absence of engagement — the opposite. Hundreds of people, all typing some version of the same sentence, all a little stunned by the same gap between where the story starts and where it lands. That silence, multiplied across thousands of people at once, is not a coincidence. It's a signal.

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A SMALL CHALLENGE BEFORE YOU WATCH

Before you press play, I want you to do something slightly uncomfortable. I want you to think of the last time you saw an animal that looked like it needed help — on a street, on a drive, in a video someone else posted — and you didn't stop. Not because you're a bad person. Just because life is fast and excuses are convenient and someone else always seems more qualified to deal with it.

I'm not saying that to make you feel guilty. Guilt doesn't change anything on its own. I'm saying it because I think there's real value in watching a story like this one while holding that memory in your hand at the same time. Not to punish yourself with it. Just to notice the gap between what you're capable of and what you usually let yourself do.

Because here's the uncomfortable truth underneath all of this: the difference between a story that ends in tragedy and a story that ends in transformation is very rarely luck. It is almost always just one decision, made by one person, at one specific moment when it would have been so much easier to keep walking.

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WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY WATCHING

You are not watching an isolated event. You are watching the compressed, visible tip of an enormous, mostly invisible pattern that repeats every single day, in every country, on every continent — a pattern where suffering happens quietly, most people walk past it, and every once in a while, someone doesn't.

You're watching proof that the gap between "no one will help" and "everything will be okay" is thinner than it feels from the outside. You're watching evidence that transformation on this scale is not rare because it's hard. It's rare because most suffering never gets the one thing it actually needs, which isn't money, or medicine, or even shelter.

It just needs someone to stop.

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THE PART WHERE I ASK YOU FOR SOMETHING

I'm not going to pretend this post exists in a vacuum. Every share, every comment, every few extra seconds someone spends actually watching instead of scrolling past — all of it does something. It pushes stories like this in front of more people who might, on some ordinary Tuesday, be standing near an animal that needs exactly what this one needed.

You don't have to donate anything. You don't have to foster anything. You don't even have to feel anything in particular. All I'm asking is that you actually watch it, start to finish, without skipping to the end. Let the tension build the way it's supposed to. Let the resolution land the way it's supposed to. And if it does what I think it's going to do, tell someone. Tag someone. Send it to the one friend who always says they wish they could do more for animals but never knows how.

Because that friend needs to see exactly what "doing more" can actually look like — not a grand gesture, not a huge donation, not a heroic rescue mission with helicopters and headlines. Just one person. One decision. One moment of refusing to keep walking.

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THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE SILENCE

Nobody likes statistics in an emotional post, so I'll keep this short, but you need to see it once.

Estimates put the global population of stray and free-roaming dogs somewhere in the hundreds of millions. Not thousands. Not tens of thousands. Hundreds of millions of animals living without guaranteed food, guaranteed shelter, or guaranteed safety, in nearly every country on earth, including the ones people assume have this "figured out."

Most of them will never appear in a video. Most of them will never be seen by anyone who has the resources, the time, or the willingness to intervene. The ones who do get rescued and filmed are not the majority of the story. They are the exception that got lucky enough to be noticed.

I say this not to make the video you're about to watch feel smaller, but to make it feel bigger. Every single successful rescue is a statistical outlier fighting against enormous odds — geography, timing, resources, and the simple fact that most passersby fall into type one or type two from earlier in this post. When a rescue actually happens, and actually works, it is beating odds that are stacked against it from every direction.

That's worth remembering the next time someone tells you that one person "can't really make a difference." The math says otherwise, every single time someone decides to stop.

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THE SCIENCE OF WHY WE MIRROR SUFFERING

There's a reason watching an animal in distress produces an almost physical reaction in your own body — tightness in the chest, a lump in the throat, an urge to look away that fights against an equal urge to keep watching. Neuroscience has a name for part of this mechanism: mirror neurons, brain cells that activate both when we experience something and when we simply witness someone — or something — else experiencing it.

This is why you don't need to speak "dog" to understand exactly what fear, exhaustion, or relief look like on an animal's face. Your brain is doing the translation automatically, faster than conscious thought, because the machinery for recognizing suffering and safety evolved long before language did.

It also explains something stranger: why the "after" moment in a rescue story can feel almost as emotionally intense as the "before" moment, just in the opposite direction. When you watch fear resolve into calm, your own nervous system downshifts along with it. That's not sentimentality. That's biology, functioning exactly the way it's supposed to.

Understanding the mechanism doesn't make the feeling less real. If anything, it makes it more remarkable — proof that empathy isn't a choice you have to talk yourself into. It's already built in. All a video like this does is give it somewhere to go.

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A LETTER TO THE VERSION OF YOU THAT ALMOST SCROLLED PAST

You almost didn't stop on this post. I know that, because that's how this platform works — thousands of things competing for a few seconds of attention, and most of them losing.

So I want to talk directly to whatever part of you paused anyway.

That instinct — the one that made you keep reading instead of swiping away at the first line — is the exact same instinct that, in a different context, on a different day, could be the reason an animal doesn't die alone on a sidewalk. It's not a coincidence that you're still here. People who scroll past everything don't usually make it this far into a post like this one.

You are, statistically, more likely than average to be a "type three" person — someone who notices, feels the discomfort, and doesn't immediately talk themselves out of caring. That's not flattery. That's just a pattern that tends to hold true.

Hold onto that. Not for this post. For the next time you're standing on a sidewalk somewhere, and something is wrong, and every excuse in the world is available to you for free.

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WHAT PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY IN THE COMMENTS

If you scroll into the comments under a video like this one, you'll see the same handful of reactions repeated hundreds of times, almost word for word, from people who have never met each other.

Someone will say they weren't ready for the ending. Someone else will say they had to watch it twice because they didn't believe what they saw the first time. Someone will tag a friend with nothing but a single crying emoji, because there's genuinely nothing else that needs to be said. Someone will admit, quietly, that they teared up at their desk at work and had to pretend they were checking email.

None of that is performative. That's what actually happens when a story compresses an entire arc — fear to safety, danger to comfort, abandonment to belonging — into a couple of minutes and lets you watch every second of the shift in real time.

There's something almost primal about it. We are wired to react to transformation stories, the same way we're wired to react to danger. A creature going from broken to whole, in front of your eyes, hits something ancient in the way we process hope.

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FIVE THINGS YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO, STARTING TODAY

Watching this shouldn't be the end of the feeling. Here's what to do with it.

One — keep a small bag with water, a collapsible bowl, and a few treats in your car or bag if you can. It costs almost nothing and it means you're never the person who "would have helped but didn't have anything on hand."

Two — save the number of a local shelter or rescue group in your phone right now, before you need it. In the moment, panic makes it hard to search for anything.

Three — if you see something and can't personally intervene, post it, tag local rescues, ask your followers if anyone nearby can help. Visibility alone has saved more animals than most people realize.

Four — support rescuers financially if you can, even five dollars, even once. The unglamorous middle of every recovery costs real money that almost never comes from anywhere dramatic.

Five — talk about this stuff, out loud, the way you're reading about it right now. Normalizing stopping, normalizing caring in public, chips away at exactly the excuses that keep most people in the type-two category forever.

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WHY I KEEP COMING BACK TO CONTENT LIKE THIS

People sometimes ask why accounts like this exist — why anyone spends time writing thousands of words about a video instead of just posting the clip and moving on.

Here's the honest answer: the clip does the emotional work in sixty seconds. But emotion without context fades fast. You feel something, you scroll, and by tomorrow the feeling is gone, replaced by whatever the algorithm decided to show you next. The words are an attempt to make the feeling stick a little longer — long enough that maybe, the next time you're standing near something that needs help, some fragment of this actually resurfaces.

That's the entire goal. Not views. Not engagement, even though engagement is obviously what keeps posts like this alive. The actual goal is recruitment — quietly turning as many people as possible from type one or type two into type three, one video, one post, one uncomfortable moment of self-reflection at a time.

If even one person reading this stops for an animal they would have otherwise walked past, everything above was worth writing.

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THE QUESTION THAT MATTERS MORE THAN THE VIDEO

Here's something worth sitting with after you finish watching, once the initial reaction fades and the timeline moves on to the next thing competing for your attention.

It's easy to feel something for sixty seconds. It's easy to type a heart emoji, feel a small warm rush of having "engaged" with something good, and go back to whatever you were doing before you saw this post. That reaction costs nothing, and it changes nothing. It's not wrong to feel it — but it's not enough to stop there, either.

The real question isn't "did this make you feel something." Almost everything on this platform is engineered to make you feel something. The real question is whether the feeling survives contact with your actual, ordinary, unfilmed life. Whether it shows up the next time you're walking somewhere and notice something is wrong. Whether it shows up the next time a friend mentions fostering and you actually consider it instead of changing the subject. Whether it shows up as five dollars to a local rescue instead of just a comment saying you wish you could help.

Stories like the one below aren't rare because the transformation itself is rare. They're rare because the specific combination of noticing, caring, and acting — all three, together, at the same moment — is rare. Most people manage one or two out of three. Noticing and caring without acting is the most common combination on earth, and it's also the one that changes absolutely nothing for the animal that needed help.

This post isn't asking you to become someone else. It's asking you to notice the moments where you're already halfway there — where you already noticed, you already cared — and to close that last small gap between caring and doing something about it. That gap is smaller than it feels. It's usually just one decision, made once, that gets easier every single time after the first.

Somewhere out there, right now, that gap is the only thing standing between an animal and the ending you're about to watch.

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LAST THING BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY

Every rescue story starts the exact same way: with someone who had every reasonable excuse to keep moving, and didn't use a single one of them.

You're about to watch what happens next.

Don't look away this time.

Watch it till the last second — the ending is not what you're expecting.

If this hit you the way I think it will, share it. Somewhere out there, right now, someone is walking past a story that hasn't started yet. Maybe this is the post that stops them.

[ａｍｉａｍｉ @280922michi_12]

A stray dog ​​that lost both of its front legs struggles to walk with its skeleton exposed, but never gives up hope.
＃前足の両方を失った野良犬は、骨が見えるほどで歩くのに苦労しているが、＃決して希望を捨てない。
https://t.co/xaifEWMiHo

[🔰Brasil Conservador ®️ 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 @MachadoDarlon]

👀🥰🐕 Esse vídeo mostra um casal discutindo, enquanto, ao lado, um cachorro observa tudo atentamente, como se tentasse entender o que estava acontecendo. Em determinado momento, o homem diz algo que faz a moça começar a chorar, como se estivesse dizendo: “Eu não quero mais você, apenas me deixe em paz.” Quando ele entra no carro, ela simplesmente o deixa ir, talvez acreditando que estava atrapalhando a vida dele. Depois, ela vai para um canto e se senta para chorar. Foi então que aquele cachorro, que havia observado tudo, se aproximou dela, como se dissesse: “Você não está sozinha. Deus está com você. Você merece alguém que reconheça o quanto você é importante. Talvez, se essa pessoa saiu da sua vida, seja porque não era para permanecer nela.” Mas o homem ainda voltou, aparentemente querendo fazê-la sofrer mais. E foi nesse momento que o cachorro reagiu, latindo como se dissesse: “Você não vai encostar nela! Vá embora e procure outra pessoa para descontar os seus caprichos.” Às vezes, Deus coloca até os animais no nosso caminho para nos lembrar que, mesmo nos momentos em que nos sentimos sozinhos, ainda existe amor, proteção e alguém capaz de perceber a nossa dor. 🐶❤️🙏

[AID FOR SHELTER ANIMALS @Aid_for_strays]

He was left terrified, injured & suffering alone on the streets, enduring unimaginable pain before we found him.
Now he urgently needs veterinary treatment & every moment we delay puts his recovery at greater risk. We have already taken him for care, but the mounting vet bills...

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

SECRETARIO DE SEGURIDAD CIUDADANA DE LA CDMX PABLO VAZQUEZ CAMACHO.
ME VEO OBLIGADO POR ESTE MEDIO A DIRIGIRME A USTED PARA QUE SEAN RETIRADOS AUTOS DE MI ENTRADA YA QUE AL NUMERO DE LA SECRETARIA NO CONTESTAN EN ESTE MOMENTO HE REALIZADO 6 LLAMADAS SIN RESPUESTA.

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@jcito007 Jajajaja Jajajaja Estúpido de Shit.

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@JJDiazMachuca @Claudiashein JAJAJAJAJAJA ,A QUE LE TIRAS CUANDO SUEÑAS JUDIA.

[amante de los animales ❤️🙏🐕💞 @JulioCesarit]

Esto no fue justo 🤬🤕😫😿

Todo en las calles es incierto , cualquier cosa puede pasar solo hay que tener prudencia.

Pero ver al pobre e indefenso animalito tirado y no hacer nada es un acto no justicable 🤬🤬

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@MLopezSanMartin Poca madre de viejo delincuente.

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@LuisCardenasMx No tienen un punto gramo madre estos OGTS de Shit.

[joseph vilanova @pepeviart]

@LuisCardenasMx Pedazo de imbecil 😡 es un don nadie este sujeto de Shit junto con el Macuspano.