A Chinese university student has been banned from owning animals for five years after a neighbour recorded him violently hitting and kicking his pet dog on the balcony of a unit block in Wollongong.

Xudong Zhang, 25, was captured on camera repeatedly beating his white Samoyed with a thick, plastic-coated metal clothes hanger causing it to yelp in pain on the afternoon of July 31 last year.

The footage, released to the Illawarra Mercury by Magistrate Mark Douglass, shows Zhang hitting the animal three times while it is unrestrained on the balcony, then putting a collar around its neck, some material over its muzzle and tying the dog to the balcony handrail with a chain.

He then grabs the animal by its fur, manoeuvres it to lie in front of him as he crouches over the dog and heavily whips it seven times around the back and head with the coat hanger.