American Humane

Mm-hmm.

And on this date in 1877, the American Humane Association was founded in Cleveland.

On this date in 1888, the Washington Monument was opened to the public.

Before it was just open to, like, Congress or whatever? You-- Or was it not open at all? I think they were working on it.

You can go onto my website, and under training, we have a link there that says how to find a good trainer.

And it has information that's been put out by the American Humane Association, 10 very important steps for you to look for.

We invite people to come in and observe my course.

classes so that they can get a good handle on what's going on the style of training that i do and are the dogs in the class happy are the owners happy are they getting somewhere and it gives folks an opportunity to come in and see what positive reinforcement training is all about

So it says, "Yes, five puppies died during the production of Snow Buddies.

American Humane reported that five puppies died while on location.

Production involved 58 total puppies."

Is that the worst thing ever? 58 total puppies?

Oh, I thought that was five died.

"Many being ill, including exposure to parovirus.

The film ultimately received an unacceptable rating from the American Humane Society."

Wow.

like that the dog is like a victim of so much physical abuse.

Did the American Humane Association work on this? Oversee any of

this? They did not approve this.

No.

Anyway, don't know.

Another little point here, probably just sort of a little side thing, maybe worth mentioning a little bit, is a couple years before this, there was a controversy on the Heaven's Gate set involving animals and the treatment of animals, which led to... legal suits against whichever studio that was so at this time of shooting Cujo a newly empowered American Humane Society had a presence on set so this is just a little side piece I thought was relevant because a couple years earlier like I think I haven't seen Heaven's Gate, but I think I want to say horses died in that and other animals were mistreated.

So it was a big surprise.

Yeah, it was a big legal fiasco around that.

And just sort of some of the results that came out of that was that the American Humane Society had much more of a presence on sets of Hollywood films.

That's what you mean, though.

had such an impact on the film industry.

You know, um, this is kind of fun and exciting.

Uh, the American Humane Society actually began Adopt a Shelter Dog Month way back in, uh, 1981, and they did that as a national initiative, and they really wanted to look for a way to be able to inspire families to adopt a dog from a local shelter or a rescue.

So you know, they were really looking for ways to be able to get people engaged and thinking about finding a dog that way.

And so, um, for the last 45 years, the campaign's really highlighted the importance of adoption and helping to connect deserving dogs with, uh, loving forever families, and encouraging that responsible lifelong pet ownership, right? We wanna be able to have pets who go home with people be able to stay home with them and be their forever home.

All right, [laughs] number 14, Apocalypse Now famously endured a chaotic production that included a typhoon destroying the sets, its leading man suffering a heart attack, and filming stretched from a planned 16 weeks to well over a year.

The American Humane Association gave the film a, quote, "unacceptable rating" because it included graphic footage of tribesmen slaughtering which animal? This is, this is, this actually is a great callback to Run Hide Fight.

Was it A, a cow, B, a water buffalo, C, a goat, D, a chicken.

Oh, man.

Mm-hmm.

So I found from the American Humane Society's website, uh, just pulling a quick quote here, says, quote, "According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-

Yeah

... and the animal trainers, no animal was harmed in the making of this film.

I don't know.

Well, right, 'cause as we talked about on our first Babe movie episode, in movies that have animals on screen, you'll often see in the credits something like, "No animals were harmed during the making of this film.

The American Humane Society," like, "monitored the production," kind of thing.

Mm-hmm.

We have a huge animal welfare team.

We spend a lot of time with American Humane Society and others.

And so we're not gonna go take, do anything super weird.

So we're not gonna take a elephant gene and stick it into a, a mouse, 'cause we know it's probably not compatible with life because there's too much genetic divergence.

And so I'm very pro-rescue.

Sure.

We work with the American Humane Society around it.

But at the same time, I could see the other argument, right? So people ask me, "Would you clone your dogs?" And I'm like, "I don't know." If my kid was like...