Clearly animals were harmed in this film, several Otises died

Adversity builds character. The animals were all the better for it.

Ok how many of you here realize that this is a movie for the family. Some post's i've read say that milo and otis died about 100 times.... ok... Prove it. I dont want quotes from people who worked on the film and heard about it through the mourning water cooler, i want a link or Pictures. Some type of visual conformation. Because I can say Brad Pitt died but no one would believe me without proof. But even beside all that, this movie was made when??? 1986 i believe. standards were a little different back then. Back before peta, and the major concern for animal rights. now i not saying that i dont believe in animal rights, but i know i got a cat and if i tell him to come to me that dont always happen. i've seen him jump 75 ft onto the ground from a tree and run off. i'm sure if he fell 200FT into water he'd be just as ok.
Apquest this isnt an attack on you, just hit reply instead of post and got about 10 lines in and decided not to go back. But i agree with you 100% that the story is what the film was made for, not for people 20+ years later to be arguing on a website about cats and dogs POSSABLY being hurt during the production.
thank you for your time if you read this.

Apquest, you are a *beep* moron. What the hell does someone being liberal have to do with anything? And I see nothing wrong with someone bringing up cruel animal practices about a movie production.

It's nobody's business but ours.

If you watch the movie closely you will see that the cat goes from big, to liitle to big, so they must have used different cats.

"People that dont believe in anything will never understand those who do"

Same here Deadcamus!

I do NOT condone animal abuse, cruelty, neglect, or anything else that can be added to that.

I suspect that many animals WERE used in various scenes, but I have no proof that animals were killed, or injured. Perhaps they had several of each because animals are very like people: they have different attention spans, lengths of patience, and limits for cooperative behavior, as well as unpredictability. What about movies and shows that use human twins in a single role? I don't think they kill one twin and then bring the other in to finish the production! (not comparing animals to people, just saying)

Animal cruelty is rife the world over. Has anyone ever been to a chicken farm where the hens were caged? It's horrific. Have you ever been to a abbatoir (slaughterhouse)? It's beyond your worse nightmare. Have you ever seen how animals are slaughtered in the Middle East? It's barbaric beyond all reason.
Do you still eat meat? Most likely, yes. I do too. And I don't consider myself a party to the practices that were undertaken prior to my purchase of said meat. But, perhaps, just maybe, I am. It's hard to say, as I have no idea where and how the meat I'm eating was slaughtered. It could have been done humanely and with no suffering, or it could have been hideous. That doesn't stop me from being an omnivore. I don't have the facilities to raise and butcher my own meat, so I have to rely on the supermarkets and butcher shops.

And, where is it said that the animals were not trained? Has that been documented? If so, my question is retracted. But it seems that at least some of the stunts were NOT just a stroke of dumb luck. A pug pulling a slew of strung fish with his curly tail? Not a chance! I am very good friends with people who raise and breed pugs, and provide a pug rescue service, and no way would those dogs do it without having some incentive, which makes me think there was at least some basic training of these animals. They aren't keen on you fooling with their tails anyway, much less having something strung through the curl and then pulling it across a field, not without some reward waiting on the other side, believe me!

I guess what I'm getting at is that it's hard to argue something without proof or evidence. You've got no proof that animals were killed and/or injured making this movie, and I have no proof that they weren't. So doesn't that make the argument (20-odd years old) moot?

Cheers!

But most films use different animals, don't they? The show Wishbone used five different dogs. The movie Babe used 48 different pigs to play the lead.

Is there anything that actually says that many animals died while filming this, and that that's why they were replaced?



I can't breathe! I got bit by the bucked-tooth snake!

Those who eat Beef, Chicken, Pork and Fish hope to claim that animals aren't killed everyday for our lifestyle? Quitcha bitchin'

Then by all means do us all a favor and "take one for the team" yourself. The world is overflowing with enough dipsh*ts as it is, so decreasing the surplus population of the likes of you is a plus a hundred times over.

And Warhawk comparing a f*%king spider to a cat or dog is positively ridiculous. I would expect nothing less from some redneck, backwoods, cousin dating piece of dung like him anyway.