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'A Dog's Purpose' LA Premiere Canceled Amid Allegations of Animal Cruelty

That, evidentially, is what caused him to be spooked." "Before the first real take, the handlers were asked to change the start point of the dog from the left side, where he had rehearsed, to the right side. Also, in the rehearsal footage, it’s clear that there is a safety diver and a trainer in the pool to protect the dog in case of a problem, as well as two trainers, a stunt coordinator and a safety officer on the deck and that there are platforms built into the pool where the dog can swim to and stand, if need be," he wrote, adding that the water was 80 to 85 degrees. "The dog did the scene in rehearsal without problem, though it was from the left side of the pool, not the right side, which is where the dog is in the TMZ video. Polone said Hercules was "desperate" to jump into the water and had to be restrained by his trainer from going in before the scene was shot. According to Amblin, Hercules is "happy and healthy." TMZ released the video last week - which led animal rights group PETA to call for a boycott of the film.Īmblin Entertainment, who produced the film, and Universal Pictures, the film's distributor, told ABC News in a statement that the recording was being reviewed. Those individuals should be held accountable and never used again by that studio or its affiliates." So should have whomever was running the set.

"The American Humane Association (AHA) representative who is paid by the production to 'ensure the safety and humane treatment of animal actors,' as its website states, should have also intervened immediately on both of those parts of the filming. "The dog trainer should have stopped trying to get the dog to go in the water as soon as the dog seemed uncomfortable, and the trainers should have had support under the dog as soon as he came to the side of the pool and/or had less turbulence in the water so he never would have gone under," Polone wrote. Although he was not on set the day the German shepherd named Hercules was seemingly forced into the water, Polone wrote that he found the incident "absolutely inexcusable."