Two French-speaking men have been filmed luring a tiny squirrel to the edge of the Grand Canyon with bread crumbs and then kicking the animal off into the abyss.

The thugs, bizarrely wearing only boxer shorts and cowboy hats, appeared to take photographs from a camera as they carried out the cruelty.

One of the duo is seen laying out the crumbs for the grey squirrel from a small plastic bag, coaxing it towards the cliff face (squirrel seen far right corner in image below).


As the rodent approaches, the same man carefully slips on one shoe then sneaks up behind the animal blocking its path to safety (squirrel seen centre of image below)

Before the creature can move out of the way, the man cruelty boots it over the edge.

The poor squirrel is then seen flying through the air into the abyss.

Apparently unknown to the pair, witness Jonathan Hildebrand filmed the entire act of cruelty and posted a 15-second clip on YouTube.



‘I did not realise what was happening until it was too late,’ Mr Hildebrand wrote.

‘I do not know who they are. All I know is that they were French.’