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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 49 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Werner Herzog boiled 11000 living rats in ink for Nosferatu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 days ago

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???

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

tldr: they were too young, a bunch got parvovirus and didn't make it

[–] brian@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 days ago

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.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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