The captions are a bit much for me. When someone starts overdoing the anthropomorphiz-ing of animals I question their judgement a tad.
Animal torture is wrong; full stop. But a dog is not a human, and comparing their struggles to those of humans just doesn't ring true in my mind.
And I would absolutely not want this human tortured because he leaves his dog outside and slaps him on the snout a few times. (over the course of 6 weeks of edited video).
I wouldn't be friends with this guy if I knew how he treated his animals, and if he is breaking the law then the dog should definitely be removed. (is it against the law to leave a dog confined to a backyard?)
But this does not strike me as extreme animal torture. More like whatever the human/pet version of "shitty parenting" could be called.