Enough Monkey Business! Tell FOX: Exploiting Real Animals on ‘Animal Control’ Isn’t Funny

FOX’s Animal Management collection starring Joel McHale shamelessly makes use of actual animals as props and punchlines, making a mockery of the problems plaguing actual animal management officers, who’re swimming upstream in an ever-growing homeless-animal disaster.

There’s by no means a humane manner for movie and TV productions to make use of actual wild animals such because the capuchin monkey and the sloth who’ve appeared in Season Two. Sloths are extraordinarily shy, nocturnal animals who would in any other case shun human contact, however reveals like Animal Management pressure them into shut proximity with their captors and topic them to the stresses of a TV set, the place they might endure extreme dealing with, loud noises, vivid lights, and noisy crowds of strangers.

Primates used for movie or TV are sometimes ripped away from their moms as infants and subjected to lives of confinement and deprivation at off-set provider compounds. Research have proven that depictions within the media of primates alongside people can improve the demand to accumulate these animals as “pets,” which might gasoline unscrupulous primate sellers who mass-breed primates and promote them to non-public house owners without any consideration for his or her welfare or security.

Animal shelters are experiencing all-time excessive give up charges and excessive crowding. Animal management companies, shelters, and rescue teams want assist, and this present’s flagrant disregard for these points is a large setback to their work. FOX ought to as an alternative give airtime to native shelters to advertise animal adoption together with spaying and neutering on the finish of each episode.

Be part of us in calling on FOX to cease utilizing actual animals on Animal Management, and till it does, boycott the present in favor of humane leisure.