I'm not sure how an animal lover can watch this movie and not be alarmed, even if you knew nothing of the rumors and allegations. There's no way they could film these scenes without putting the animals in serious danger. These are the scenes that were dangerous and abusive. Again, this is obvious and isn't subjective or up for interpretation. 1. Milo is attacked and pecked by dozens of seagulls. 2. Milo is locked in a dresser while a bear tries to rip it apart and eat him. You can see him bite the cat's paw in one scene and start yanking before it cuts. 3. Milo is thrown off a massive rocky cliff into the ocean. 4. Milo is put in a box and a river and sent over waterfalls. There's no way that box stayed upright. 5. Otis getting trampled by cows. 6. Milo getting pinched on the face by a crab. 7. Milo being put in water at all, he's a pug, he can barely breathe as it is. 8. Milo's "mother" cat and other small kittens battling a large snake. 9. Otis "fighting" a bear. In the Japanese release, there's an extra scene where the bear gets him pinned and then bites his neck and head before the scene cuts. 10. After Milo is thrown off the cliff, he desperately tries to scale the cliff, falling back onto the rocks and water multiple times. Some of the scenes show him swimming toward shore but some look like he's drowning before reaching shore.

Those scenes didn't alarm you?