Scooby-Doo movie casts a real dog for the first time: What PETA and animal rights groups say about it

What’s new for Scooby-Doo? Being played by a real dog. In Netflix’s upcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins, the iconic mystery-solving dog will be portrayed by an actual dog rather than being animated for the first time in the franchise’s 57-year history. Scooby-Doo and the rest of Mystery Incorporated—Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy—are most often portrayed in animation, including 14 animated television series and 43 animated movies. But even in previous live-action adaptations...