Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Animal action is limited to one scene. While Shame is in pursuit of Mendoza, one of Mendoza’s men releases three Rottweilers from his van. The dogs chase Shame down a hallway of an old warehouse and confront him. Remembering a story that Peaches had read to him from a tabloid magazine about dogs not attacking if you sing James Brown songs to them, he does just that, causing the dogs to sit down in front of him and listen. When Mendoza’s man sees this, he tells the dogs to attack, but to no avail. Shame sees a button which reads “garbage” and pushes it. This releases garbage and meat scraps from overhead onto Mendoza’s man. The dogs turn to Mendoza’s man, smelling the meat scraps, and start to bark at him. One of the dogs jumps up and grabs his arm in his mouth. To accomplish this the dog’s trainer, doubling for the actor, ran down the hall. He used a clicker to make the dogs follow him. For the barking scene, the dogs followed verbal commands from their trainer to “speak”. When the dog is seen grabbing onto the man’s arm, a stunt man with a padded arm was standing in for the actor. The dog had been trained to grab onto the man’s arm upon cue, with food as a reward.