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[–] Kyle@lemmy.ca 79 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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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[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 31 points 17 hours 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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 15 hours ago

Known better? Probably.

Cared better? Absolutely not.

Imagine the caliber of person it takes to neglect a golden retriever to death.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours 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.

[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

If you had a kid at the time you'd know about it.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 41 points 18 hours ago (6 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 52 points 20 hours 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???

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 35 points 20 hours ago (3 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 19 points 18 hours 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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 15 hours ago

Oh, damn. I just made this same comment before scrolling down further and seeing yours.

Come to find out the whole thing was filmed in China.

[–] scoobydoo27@lemmy.zip 9 points 19 hours 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.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] brian@lemmy.ca 45 points 19 hours 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.

[–] plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

Thanks I'm illiterate

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 17 hours ago (1 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.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 33 points 17 hours 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...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 14 hours ago (36 children)

What's the conventional wisdom as to why this is so bad, but eating meat basically gets a pass? Like, meat offers sustenance, yes, but it's by no means required. So basically, humans eat meat because it tastes really good


it's great "culinary entertainment."

This is a different kind of entertainment, but it's deeply offensive to many folks. I'm not trying to be a dick about it, just curious why this is seen as such a sin.

Is it that these animals weren't "supposed" to be killed? Would a movie about a beef cow who ends up getting slaughtered, both onscreen and IRL, be seen as better? Worse?

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 13 hours ago

I suppose if I had a cow living in my home with me that would be a problem. It's familiarity.

And puppies

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 gj

Welcome to veganism! 🌱💚🌱

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

Kristi would've gave any animal heavy metal poisoning

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 7 points 18 hours ago (3 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....

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 10 points 18 hours ago

Also #FuckDisney

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

space buddies made me cry as a kid

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

i cant remember anything about it just that i cried to it 😂

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[–] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

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

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