why is hardee for some people to watch animals getting hurt?

Same reason it's harder for people to watch acts of violence against children, the elderly, to some degree the disabled, etc.

It's because animals are innocent to human violence. Wild dogs would only fight for food, shelter and reproduction. Humans being intellectually superior have more reasons for aggression that the dogs can't comprehend, and as the films audience, we are disgusted with our own species.

When you see a human hurt in a film theirs a motive behind it could be bullying, war, revenge etc. and people will react in different manners to it the majority of us are not insensitive. However when you see an innocent dog harmed in a film like this where he's been treated miserably by everyone except a 13 year old girl I would say a lot of us find it hard to watch. It's like when you see a child being abused or neglected in a film you empathize with them immediately.

When human characters are harmed in a film, you can be sure it's part of their acting job, whether it is staged to look like harm, or perhaps the work of a stuntman/woman who uses skills and equipment to convince the viewers the action is all real.

When animals are harmed in a fear, that is not always the case. Depending on where the film is shot, some animals may be harmed or risking harm. Between prosthetic animals ("dummies"), digital editing, Foley work, implying harm but not showing it, and other tools, real injury doesn't contribute anything to the art of a film. In older films, there was a lot of abuse. Horses, especially, were disposable. If you see a Western or a battle scene in older films, and horses are falling or flipping over during a charge, it's probably due to a contraption such as the Running W.

There is also the stupidity of including injury/death of animals (faked or not) that does nothing for the film except to raise the level of violence.



~If you go through enough doors, sooner or later you're gonna find a dog on the other side.~🐕

it is hard for human beings to watch any suffering not just animals.