This heartbreaking video shows a dog pawing at a friend’s motionless body after the other pooch was hit by a car.
Footage taken on a pavement in Peru shows the stray animal stroking the other dog with its paw as if making a doomed attempt to wake it up.
One passer-by can be heard saying ‘poor little dog’ but the street otherwise appears deserted.
The footage was taken in the city of Huancayo, in the central Peruvian region of Junin. It is not clear when.
Loyal dog tries to ‘wake’ unconscious pooch that was hit by a car
Heartbreaking: This footage shows a stray dog pawing at a friend’s motionless body after the other pooch was hit by a car
At the start of the 30-second clip, the surviving dog is standing over the body with both its front paws on the fallen animal’s body.
The darker brown dog then paws repeatedly at its friend, stroking its body as if trying to turn it over.
When that proves fruitless, the dog moves around to the other side of the body and leaves its paw resting on it, turning as if to look at the camera.
A third dog then comes into view, but the footage cuts out before its arrival is noticed by the first one.
Tearjerking: Footage taken on a pavement in Peru shows the stray animal stroking the other dog with its paw as if making a doomed attempt to wake it up
Fallen friend: The darker brown dog stands over its comrade, which was one of three dogs killed by cars on the same day, according to an animal association
The footage was shared on the Facebook page of animal association Sueno Compartido, meaning Shared Dream.
The association said that the dogs were found on Mariategui and Huancavelica Avenue on the same day two other stray dogs were run over.
It is not clear who had moved the dog’s lifeless body to the pavement.
‘I hope someday we will be real thinking beings and we take on the responsibility of having those little angels. I’m very sad about this miserable reality,’ said the user who shared the video on Facebook.
‘There is a lot to learn about those angels who are victims of human cruelty.’