Amazon Prime has reportedly cancelled The Pack after PETA slammed the show over leaked footage showing dogs dangling over a steep drop and slamming into rocks while strapped to humans rappelling down a cliff face.
The Amazing Race-style series, hosted by Olympian Lindsey Vonn and her dog Lucy, featured humans and their pooches competing in challenges described by the animal rights group as dangerous situations, The Wrap reported.
Editing room floor videos, which appear to be taken from a cell phone, show the pups hanging between their owner s legs while slamming into the cliff face and flailing their paws in a desperate bid to scramble to safety.
The Pack hosted by Olympian Lindsey Vonn is an Amazing Race-style US show
Episode three sees a team abseil off a cliff tethered to their dogs in Costa Rica
Leaked raw footage on YouTube shows filming at 108ft Los Campesinos Falls
PETA sent letter of complaint to Amazon s head of unscripted programming
A producer on the show said vets and experts had the final say over dog safety
Amazon’s ‘The Pack’ Condemned by PETA After Footage Leaks From Dog-Human Rappelling Challenge (Exclusive)
“No dog would choose to be part of this ‘pack, ” the group saysTony Maglio and Reid Nakamura | December 15, 2020 @ 3:28 PM
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PETA is baring its teeth at Amazon over leaked footage from Season 1 of “The Pack” an “Amazing Race”-style series where dogs and their owners travel and traverse nature together showing the dogs being put into seemingly dangerous situations.
The videos, taken from raw footage of a challenge in the show’s third episode, show the tasked human-dog teams rappelling down the 108-foot Los Campesinos Falls in Costa Rica. The clips are unedited and were shot with a cell phone off an editing machine, according to a source with knowledge of the post-production, and did not make it air. The source added that the editor was told to cut around these parts to make the scene work.