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Originally Posted by yellowperil

That's what I always thought, not allowed to shoot animals for movies / TV entertainment, and hope it's still so.

Yeah, I think there are rules. I've even heard that SFX folks will collect fresh road kill and put it on ice so they can have realistic stand-in critter. I'm sure that all filmed entertainment probably has folks that monitor all animal stuff. Plus, I suspect many actors would NOT stand for animal cruelty.

The missus was watching a show the other night that's had several animals in it that looked absolutely real, but I'm sure were not. One was a bird where the movement was a little stiff, but the other was a bear that looked real, and I still am not sure if it was CGI (my suspicion) or some other SFX.