Detailed Animal Action Report

Three dogs are seen throughout the film. In one scene when the trio is preparing for their big heist, they are at an armored car yard. Sid is busy drilling a hole into the radiator of a truck when a Doberman Pincher comes around the corner. The dog leaps at Sid, and for protection Sid throws his arms in front of himself. Unfortunately the drill is still in his hand and it sinks into the animals throat, killing him. Russell pulls the dog off of Sid and drags him away. This scene was filmed in cuts with the use of a real and a fake dog. When the dog leaps at Sid, the trainer doubled as the actor. The dog was merely playing with his trainer with the sounds of the attack being dubbed in later during post-production. The fake dog was used when Russell grabs the dog off of Sid and drags him away. You never really see the drill touch the dog and, in fact, the drill was never on when the real dog was in the scene. There is also a scene where the dogs are seen being walked on leashes in the rain. After each take, the dogs were immediately dried with towels by their trainers. There are several other scenes where Sid’s pet dogs are seen walking with the actor, sitting or lying on a bed, couch or floor, or riding in a car. For all of these scenes, the trainer merely placed the dogs on their mark and used voice and hand commands to cue them, with food as a reward.