If you’re shocked by capital murdering puppies, wait until you find out about the animal torture/murder industry, enslaved labor, etc.
The puppies are just the tip of the meatberg.
The meat eaters are not going to be happy with this comment. :^)
nah, it’s fine, puppies are too stringy anyway.
I don’t understand?
George Carling… Tippy the dog.
“Sometimes, you can get a dog that looks exactly like the dog you used to have. Right? You shop around a little bit, and you find a dog identical to your former dog. And that’s real handy cause you don’t have to change the pictures on your mirror or anything. Right? You just bring the dead one into the pet shop. Throw him up on the counter and say, “Give me another one of them. That was real good.” And they’ll give you a carbon copy of your ex-goddam dog. Now my favorite dog that I ever had in my whole lifetime was Tippy.”
Transcription
An American Humane Certified Safety Representative visited the Snow Buddies set on the first day of filming. Fifteen Golden Retriever puppies were on set and fifteen other were being treated by a local veterinarian, and their illnesses were eventually diagnosed as Giardia and Coccidia. On request from the representative the remaining puppies on set received additional veterinary checks. Twenty-five of the puppies were from an American breeder and five were from a Canadian breeder. It was discovered that the puppies were approximately 8 weeks old, which lead to the belief that the puppies were only 6 weeks old when they were brought by the trainer to the movie set. Per the USDA it was at the time illegal to transport puppies under the age of 8 weeks.
After the removal of all 30 puppies, 28 older Golden Retriever puppies were brought in to continue filming. All of the 28 older puppies were exposed to parvovirus. Five of the puppies died, and up to six others fell ill after exposure to the virus.
As a result, the film was not permitted to use the “No animals were harmed…” disclaimer and received an “Unacceptable” marking from the American Humane Association.
Well, I could have gone my whole life not knowing this. :(
Its really sad, but not unexpected. Shitbags gonna be shitbags… stop buying or consuming disney shit
Go watch Milo and Otis again. Holy shit. They through a fucking kitten off a cliff.
After doing some wtf research, the thing was filmed in China. Those poor kittens and puppies.
*Threw
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/animals-abused-milo-and-otis/
That was a rumor, and has never been verified despite decades of discussion and many attempts to prove or disprove it. Also, it was filmed in Japan, not China.
Snopes can leave things unsecured all they want, but the footage of what happened to the cats and dogs is proof. There wasn’t any CGI in 1986 and the abusive and stressful situations they did to them was obviously real. But yes, it was Japan instead of China.
I don’t know anything about your overall claim and don’t know what the movie is that you’re talking about but CGI absolutely did exist in 1986. The original Tron released 4 years prior, and green screens/similar had been around for decades.
Lol. Dude. If you think green screens and CGI weren’t super easy to recognize back in the 80’s, you need to go watch some old movies that used it.
Also, yeah, Tron released 2 years earlier and had some CGI. There was even CGI way before Tron in movies. When I say there was no CGI, I’m saying there was no CGI that could fool even a 6 year old into thinking an animal was jumping off of a cliff.
As for the green screen thing… Bless your little soul.
God, that jumpcut. That least they could have done was make it LOOK like the cat jumped itself.
At least it survived the cliff dive.
Was just about to mention milo and Otis. I loved that movie as a kid. Felt pretty bad rediscovering it as an adult.
I loved that movie growing up and had my own copy. And then as an adult I learnt about that dark, dark history.
I used to love it too :(
fighting bears and shit
“here. Get bit by this lobster”
Here comes the dog, strong and brave, WOOF!
oof, right in the childhood
Oh shit, that’s fucking CHATRAN, I loved that as a kid :(
image of text
no link to source or actual text
pointlessly breaking the web & accessibilityDoes OP know about this alternative to images of text called text? 🤦
https://humanehollywood.org/production/snow-buddies/ From the references
No not a link to a wiki but the pervasive weird ass AI favored descriptions of all images in Lemmy. It’s fucking weird
It’s not for AI, its for accessibility. Alt text is a user-generated description of an image that’s been standardized for screen readers. It also helps to have a text description if the image hosting breaks.
So why is alt text suddenly no longer aria tags and otherwise? Why is accessibility now plastered text across a Lemmy pic? In scenarios that have never been considered accessibility critical?
I can see the image, and I can see the text… no meta data for screen readers… Why are we now rendering sentences VISUALLY onto images?
I think you’re complaining that your lemmy client displays the alt text over the image. Mine does that with videos, which I also find annoying, but not with images. In any case, it is a client issue, so you could ask your developer nicely for an option to disable this behaviour (or look in the settings if it’s already possible)
Oic, you’re complaining about screenshots of text as memes, not alt text.
Carry on.
discovered that the lemming scene was actually filmed at the Bow River near Canmore, Alberta, and further that the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide.
Fixed link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy
Boy, markdown + deep links is not a good combination.
how big was the cliff? did they get hurt or die or was it even more faked?
the same small group of lemmings was transported to the location, jostled on turntables, and repeatedly shoved off a cliff to imply mass suicide
That Wikipedia quote implies it wasn’t deadly, but checking the end line citations, their reference calls it a “mass animal killing made to look like natural suicide” and makes no mention of using the same group multiple times.
great game back in the day though btw. we need another version. maybe with a political bent
I was going to say that’s still better than the Lemmy scene.
No, animals were harmed in the making of this film.
This is probably the best use of this meme I’ve ever seen. Beautiful.
Parvovirus is a puppy owners worst nightmare. It’s kind of puppy ebola but super contagious and high mortality rate.
Typically puppy owners never accept a puppy younger than 8 weeks without their first vaccination. And don’t let them go out in places exposed to other unknown dogs until after the second vaccination at 16 weeks. So those early weeks should be spent with other vaccinated puppies to socialise them. And if you are going out, carry them or put them in a cart, or take them places you know no sick dogs have been within a year.
Yet another reason why raising puppies is so much harder than people think.
Yeah, parvo specifically attacks multiplying cells. It’s not super bad for fully grown dogs, which only multiply cells to maintain a baseline. But for puppies that are actively growing, it basically causes them to fall apart at the seams. Their bone marrow and intestinal lining basically turns to mush, since they’re almost entirely made of multiplying cells.
In a movie from 2008, so it wasn’t that long ago. You’d think they would have known better by then. Another reminder to boycott Disney.
Known better? Probably.
Cared better? Absolutely not.
Imagine the caliber of person it takes to neglect a golden retriever to death.
Werner Herzog boiled 11000 living rats in ink for Nosferatu.
Yeah when you hear dude babbling about the “cruelty of nature” or whatnot… He’s just talking about himself.
Dutch behavioral biologist Maarten 't Hart, hired by Herzog for his expertise with laboratory rats, revealed that, after witnessing the inhumane way in which the rats were treated, he no longer wished to cooperate. Apart from traveling conditions that were so poor that the rats, imported from Hungary, had started to eat each other upon arrival in the Netherlands, Herzog insisted the plain white rats be dyed gray. To do so, according to 't Hart, the cages containing the rats needed to be submerged in boiling water for several seconds, causing another half of them to die. The surviving rats proceeded to lick themselves clean of the dye immediately, as 't Hart had predicted they would.
Holy shit.
Goddamn
I previously kinda liked Hertzog (he was amusing to listen to if nothing else), not any more.
How do you boil 11,000 rats alive and then go on and make 10 minute long thinkpieces about the profound sadness of the death of a single penguin that leaves its flock? What a fucking masturbatory asshat.
At what point do you just buy gray rats? Where in the cost benefit analysis does boiling rats in ink come in?
I guess when buying 11000 rats you are somewhat constrained in your choice of color. It’s not like you can order them made in a custom color.
It’s not like they needed all 11000 of them. Half of them died from being submerged in boiling dye… Surely, it would have been easier with half a magnitude smaller quantity.
Half of them died from being submerged in boiling dye
I’m surprised that half of them survived. Aside, that is cartoonishly evil.
Hoooooly shit I knew productions with animals were usually darker than they seem but Snow Buddies??? Snow Buddies was built on the back of mass puppy casualty???
I have never heard of this movie or the whole franchise (did some searching) before. It’s not even something I have seen anything about and wasn’t interested, I’ve literally never seen or heard anything about any of this. But I’m not surprised, nothing as big as Disney exists without many skeletons in the closet. Haven’t given them any money since I was a teenager, and that won’t ever change.
If you had a kid at the time you’d know about it.
If you want to see more animal endangerment check out Milo & Otis.
They legit threw a cat off a cliff into the ocean for it.
I used to love that movie until one night as a small child, something just snapped in me and I ran into my mom’s room bawling my eyes out. I couldn’t explain why at that age, but the movie felt so wrong from that point forward.
I hate all animal cruelty but shit against cats makes me the angriest. What the fuck is wrong with people? These creatures love and trust us and we treat them in terrible ways.
Oh, damn. I just made this same comment before scrolling down further and seeing yours.
Come to find out the whole thing was filmed in China.
Not sure why that’s relevant in any way, especially when it was made in Japan.
Not to mention the fact that there has never been confirmation of animal abuse in the movie, per the snopes article linked under your prior comment.
I checked. It was Japan and not China, but the relevancy is that the US in the 80’s wouldn’t have been allowed to throw a cat off a cliff or get ones pay bitten by a lobster or tossed in a river. Snopes not confirming anything is irrelevant, since there’s actual footage of this stuff happening. Do you have a stress free way of throwing a kitten off of a cliff?
There is an uncut shot of a cat falling 20-30 feet into an ocean.
If that’s not cruelty I don’t know what is.
tldr: they were too young, a bunch got parvovirus and didn’t make it
Addendum:
They were too young and a bunch were sick, they were forced to get older puppies, who then also got sick.
They fucked up, got told they fucked up, then fucked up again.
Thanks I’m illiterate
