PETA Statement: Dog Used in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'

PETA Statement: Dog Used in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

For Immediate Release:
July 26, 2019

Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382

Wilmington, Del. –

Below please find our statement from Senior Vice President of PETA’s Cruelty Investigations Department Daphna Nachminovitch on the dog used in Quentin Tarantino’s new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:

Pit bulls are the most abused and abandoned animals in dogdom, and in one thoughtless swoop, Quentin Tarantino has done much to exacerbate the situation by getting dogs from a notorious breeder for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Pit bulls are chained, caged, neglected, starved, beaten, and even set on fire and fought to death. And like the dogs featured in this movie, their ears are often mutilated for a “tough” look. Irresponsible portrayals like this are part of the reason why pit bulls flood our nation’s shelters. While the humane community is doing all that it can to help these animals—primarily, by shutting down the pit bull breeding industry—Tarantino has set them back. Shame on him.

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