---
title: "Rich Kid Polishes Maserati with Puppy, Internet Loses Mind"
description: "Animal abuse or just playing around?"
date: "2017-05-19"
modified: "2017-05-19"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/10446/rich-kid-polishes-maserati-with-puppy-internet-loses-mind"
categories:
  - "Maserati News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "dog"
  - "Instagram"
  - "Internet"
  - "maserati"
  - "mc12"
  - "puppy"
  - "rich kids"
---

# Rich Kid Polishes Maserati with Puppy, Internet Loses Mind

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On the appropriately named Instagram page Rich Kids of London, user @m666ya shared a brief video of someone gently rubbing a gorgeous Maserati MC12 with a tiny white puppy. The caption on the video reads: "The only way to wash the iconic 6.0 litre #MaseratiMC12 is with 100% natural puppy fur ensuring a proper polish. (No puppy was harmed in this video - all smiles and tail wags here)." It's a couple seconds long and the seemingly content puppy barely moves at all. View at your own risk.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUKS_pgAyMO

So, basically, it's rich kids making fun of themselves for being rich kids by "polishing" a rare supercar with "100% natural puppy fur". As you can imagine, many the good people of Instagram were not amused. Here are just a few of the comments:

*"Stop it. It's animal abuse."*

*"STOP LIVING."*

*"OMG Are you crazy??? You so terrible \[13 thumbs down emojis\]"*

*"It doesn't matter if you were gentle with the dog or not; the point is, you've DONE it- rubbing a puppy over yr car. Its clearly an abuse and its disgusting, yr attitude. Shame on u"*

*"Stop breathing pls"*

According to Instagram, gently rubbing a puppy on a car is punishable by death. There were a couple comments like the following which defended the short video, but they were greatly outnumbered by the loud opposition:

*"Chill guys! He seems very gentle to the puppy. Look at the puppy's face, if he's in pain he would try to flee or bark or sth c'mon...."*

As far as I'm concerned, this is not a big deal. The puppy does appear to be fine and this isn't much different than giving him a little rub on a tile floor or something. If anything, I'm a little offended that somebody allowed a dog to be in the same room as an MC12.

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