A PETA undercover investigation into Atlanta Film Animals (AFA)—a business that trains and provides animals for the film, television, and advertising industries—revealed that behind the scenes, workers denied cats and other animals food using antiquated training methods, deprived elderly pigs of veterinary care, and warehoused dogs in cold, barren kennels.
“She’s a total bitch!”
“Fucking whore“
That’s how a worker at AFA—which has provided animals for major studios, including Disney, Netflix, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.—crudely referred to Cookie, a 60-year old cockatoo who had plucked her own chest bald due to severe anxiety and the stress of near-constant confinement. In nature, cockatoos fly many miles a day and spend most of their time foraging for berries, seeds, and nuts with their flock, but AFA forced Cookie to spend her days and nights unable to fly, socialize freely, or partake in her other natural behaviors.
Atlanta Film Animals trainers’ credits include movies such as Cruella, Lady and the Tramp, Where the Crawdads Sing, and Strays and television shows like Will Trent.
