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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

image of text
no link to source or actual text
pointlessly breaking the web & accessibility

Does OP know about this alternative to images of text called text? 🀦

[–] [email protected] 0 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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can’t even imagine the kind of person you have to be to actually let this movie get published about a bunch of cute little puppy dogs if you had the power to stop it and you knew what happened.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

This is the same company that, 60 years ago, built a turntable to throw lemmings off the edge of a cliff for a "nature documentary" since they weren't jumping over on their own.

Lemmings do not actually commit suicide in nature...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

WTF?! Man I love Air Bud franchise but I never saw Snow Buddies. I was thinking of doing a re-watch and see all the Air Bud movies I haven't seen yet. But after seeing this news I'm not so sure....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

space buddies made me cry as a kid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's in that movie? I have a DVD but have not watched it yet.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Also #FuckDisney

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Werner Herzog boiled 11000 living rats in ink for Nosferatu.

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At what point do you just buy gray rats? Where in the cost benefit analysis does boiling rats in ink come in?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, animals were harmed in the making of this film.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

This is probably the best use of this meme I've ever seen. Beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Kristi would've gave any animal heavy metal poisoning

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Thanks I'm illiterate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 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???

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

hahah holy fuck, man. was not expecting to see that when I first opened up Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

A proud Disney tradition.

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I was going to say that's still better than the Lemmy scene.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fixed link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy

Boy, markdown + deep links is not a good combination.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

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.

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