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The Premise of “A Dog’s Purpose”

The premise of the movie A Dog’s Purpose is to make humans happy. This is an atavistic, egregious premise.

A Dog's Purpose, dogs, German Shepherd, subject-of-a-life

Dog lovers cry out after footage leaked of a dog forced to perform stunts on the set of “A Dog’s Purpose”

Despite what movie producers might want you to believe, The Humane Party would like to remind you that it is not a dog’s purpose to perform frightening and dangerous stunts to entertain humans.

A Dog's Purpose, American Humane Association, dog, film, German Shepherd, Hercules, PETA, stunt

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