“Some very lack brain”: throws ice water on dogs, the new Tiktok challenge that does not happen

Return after more than ten years of absence. For a few days, several content creators have fun participating in the ICE Bucket Challenge. This trend, very popular in 2014, is to overthrow an icy water bucket on the head and film its reaction to share it on social networks.

Eleven years later, the challenge is back. But this time, the cameramen have fun throwing a bucket of water to the dogs. In several videos on Tiktok or Instagram, you can see hundreds of dogs, sitting wisely in a chair, receive a water bucket without prior notice.

Stress, injury and thermal shock

The problem is that this trend can be particularly stressful and, above all, dangerous, for the animal. “The animal will feel stress, but it could be injured or suffer a thermal shock. This constitutes a serious participation in animal welfare simply,” explains Sébastien de Jonge, spokesman for Gaia, with RTL information.

Which causes the discomfort of several animal defense associations that firmly condemned this trend. “We thought we had seen everything. But some continue to demonstrate that they lack the brain to respect life,” says the Animal League on Instagram. “It is not fun to throw water to a dog that does not suspect anything, it is ruthless,” denounces the Peta organization. “Using animals that love you and trust you to have influence is pathetic and shameful.”

The same story on the side of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. The association evokes in X (ex-twitter) a “dangerous tendency to condemn firmly.”

In social networks, several Internet users also express their indignation. “My heart breaks,” wrote one of them. “Not in animals,” recalls another. “It’s really cruel.”

But this challenge fortunately not only concerns dogs. Several Internet users have also been staged by overthrowing a cube of water in the head. The objective? Raise funds to raise awareness about mental health. The income generated by the videos will be donated to several professional organizations, such as the association of active minds. Several celebrities such as the influencer Haley Kalil, the YouTubeur Mrbeast and the content designer enjoy Fictuchoenix in the challenge.

In 2014, the ICE Bucket Challenge had raised $ 115 million (around 95 million euros) to help fight Charcot’s disease. Stars like Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez or Justin Bieber, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates participated in the challenge.