Lost Part of My Childhood Last Night

I watched this with my wife last night after we were fondly reminiscing about it and planning to show it to our child. My mind is blown at the sheer amount of animal cruelty caught on camera that was edited and condensed into something with the reputation of being a children's classic.

Without a childlike innocence that obfuscates what the animals are actually experiencing when the film shows scenes like a cat running away from a snake onto a tree branch so small it snapped, or a pug surfing on an endangered sea turtle that is desperately trying to dive and escape but can't because a diver has it on a leash (the final shot of that gasping turtle's face looked like it was about to die from stress and shock), this film is hard to watch. Some scenes, like the cat being thrown off a 100 foot cliff and conveniently landing between two rock formations (how many Milos died from hitting those rocks before they managed to toss one between them?) or a pug (or pugs, considering at least one was clearly killed in the process) "fighting" a bear made me feel like I was watching an animal snuff film.

That famous scene from another film where a horse is forced to run down stairs and breaks it's legs seriously seems tame in comparison
to about 75% of what happens to Milo and Otis in terms of animal cruelty. My mind is actually blown that the movie is rated G and considered a children's classic and I definitely won't be showing it to mine.