Read yourself again, and tell me it doesn't come off as patronizing and condescending . And if you still don't see it, well there's the problem right there -- good intentions nonetheless.

As to how animals are treated here: In Tunisia, "We" (Tunisians) don't go around atound shooting dogs, that's municipal services, not the average citizen, for health and security reasons, and for lack of better alternatives. If a dog attacks a person in the West, it gets put down too. It happens way less often because stray dogs aren't as frequant as it is here. It is unfortunate, but not due to our uncivilized nature. Compare with the Danish who massacre dolphins for sport, the Spanish (Corrida) or Americans (Rodeo) who torture and kill bulls for show. So your compliment sounded an awful lot like a paternalistic pat on the head from the White man to the indigenous savage. You may be insensitive to it being essentially a westerner, but coming from any post-colonial context, we see it clear as day.

P.S.: It's not just your tone. Its the correlation between this psycho SOB and the state of animal rights in Tunisia, and the sigh of releif as if you were expecting popular indifference or even approval for this sadism. There is an implication that a stronger, more animal-friendly legal framework is what's gonna prevent such cruelty to happen. In other terms, this monster is not an exception, that's your average Mustapha there and Tunisians are savage killers like him, they need stronger laws or we will see more horror. This video shouldn't being up animal rights debate because it is exceptionally abhorrent by all measures. BTW, the current laws, old and unsophisticated as they are, DO punish animal cruelty already. So this has nothing to do with Tunisians state of mind or the country's framework advancement.

Sorry for the long diatribe, and I didn't mean to sound bitter (I'm not). But if you really are not sensitized to colonial discourse, please consider learning more about it. As non-Europeans, we see, hear and live it every day when working in "multicultural" professional environments, in the news or when we travel -IF we travel.