Thread: Anybody ever use live animals as a prop?

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My garage scene is a mad scientist werewolf making scene. I have an animated werewolf in a cage, few werewolf heads (making bodies aswell), i have torn up body corpses, a surgical table where my mad scientist is turning a man into a werewolf.

I was thinking of attaching a kennel I have to my dog door allowing my big scary looking dog to enter the scene from my backyard into the kennel so he can bark at on lookers and he can go back into the backyard as he pleases.

I bought a standing gumball machine and was thinking of filling it w/ crickets or a live mouse.

what do you think?

heres a pic of my dog

Minimize your risks...no live animals...fences fail, doggy doors fail, people stick their fingers in places they don't belong...just my 3 cents.

I tend to agree with Craig on this one. Way too much chance of something going wrong with the dog. We keep our dogs in the basement, and while their barking DOES add to the haunt, there is zero chance of anyone being hurt by them.

As for the mouse in the gumball machine... eh... I would be really careful. While some people would say it is just a mouse, others would have a hissy because it is a living creature. On some scale the crickets could go the same way.

Just about every year!!!
My black cat jumps into the widow to watch all the TOT's go by!

good points i think i will just leave him in the yard and no go on the real mouse.I can just put in a fake one in the machine.

Anybody ever use live animals as a prop?

Dose chaining my brother up in the front yard to scare TOTs count???

I had to post when I saw this. Man that dog looks mean!

One thing I will say before my story, I am doing a pro haunt this year and my ins. company did ask if there would be live animals in the haunt. So that must be frowned upon and may cost more.

years ago when I did my first haunt in my large barn/garage, I had a friend who had a python. I am terrified of snakes, but this one seemed friendly, I even finally touched the thing. My friend had this goatee, maybe a foot or 2 long and he braded it, but that night he slicked it up and wore devil horns and we put him behind a cage as he held the snake. People wore totally freaked when they realized it was real and about that time we droped a fake snake from a string lol! Oldest trick in the book, but most of them about @#$& themselfs!

I have one word for you...PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

In todays sue happy society you are looking for trouble, no need to put yourself in that position.

For the mouse in the gumball machine, put a few gumballs in it, with a fake mouse (from the pet store)...have a string tied to the mouse, going out to a motor. You guessed it...jumping mouse in the gumball machine!