Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes might have a silver lining for at least some unemployed actors – the four-legged kind. With ...

How Mercy for Animals' celebrity liaison gets stars to participate - and promote - its cause.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bear trainer Doug Seus plays with Bart the Bear, who's appeared in over 20 TV shows and films. Jean-Louis Atlan/Sygma via Getty ...

The American Human Association monitors roughly 70% of animal action in Hollywood productions. Only the AHA can say "No animals were harmed" but it can't vouch for specific trainers. Trainers who have ...

The ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes might have a silver lining for at least some unemployed actors – the four-legged kind. With nearly all Hollywood film productions halted, many of the hardworking ...

There is a long and storied history of nonhuman actors, from Luke, the dog of silent star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, to the collies cast in the role of Lassie in film and on television. Bart the Bear ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But business has not been as good as it used to be for the animal trainers who ...