Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - Weekly #TeamDog Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now

This disturbing video shows the apparent culling of dozens of dogs on the island paradise of Bali.

The haunting 16 minute footage features Balinese officials giving a range of breeds lethal injections and then piling the corpses together.

Dogs are seen writhing in fear before the injections are given and then having spasms on the ground as they die.

(Image: Youtube)

In one particularly unpleasant shot, a woman is shown SMILING as she takes a picture of a dog that is about to be put down.

Authorities on the Indonesian island have been culling dogs for a number of years, reportedly following the first human death on the island from rabies in 2008.

In 2010 the government tried to control the disease with a mass vaccination of the popular holiday destination's many strays.

But the cullings have continued, and in April, the Bali Times reported 31 expensive dog breeds including Siberian husky and Pomeranians had been put down after they were smuggled onto the island.

Bali itself has been officially designated as a "mad dog disease quarantine area".

Animal rights campaigners have long called for more humane ways of dealing with the problem.

The video poster Tony z top wrote: "If dogs are not cruelly killed for food then they are brutally killed because they are homeless.

"In Bali frightened smuggled dogs for the black market are held in cages and forced to watch others killed by lethal injection. The sadistic scene involving innocent dogs whose only crime is being homeless and suspected to have 'rabies'.

"Screaming in fear the dogs are held down and given lethal injection by heart stick which is extremely painful. Other dogs must watch in terror as they await their turn.

"Sweet puppies are killed then picked up by the tail and thrown onto a pile of other lifeless bodies. Loving dogs treated as garbage instead of faithful companions who only wanted to be loved."

(Image: Youtube)

Animal rights group PETA has condemned the video. PETA Australia has previously worked with the Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) and the Indonesian government to end the mass culls.

A spokeswoman said: "PETA strongly condemns the slaughter seen in this video. "Dogs are clearly terrified and stressed, no attempt is made to administer lethal injection via IV methods (the only humane form of euthanasia) and there is no reason why these dogs cannot be vaccinated rather than slaughtered.'

"It is unclear why the Balinese Governor has decided to revert to a policy of killing all stray dogs in the face of an extremely successful anti-rabies vaccination program and against all specialist advice."