Hollywood actress and PETA spokeswoman Dominique Swain has reportedly been caught dumping unvaccinated puppies at an animal shelter.
Swain, 29, arrived at a Malibu refuge with her father and a box of eight-week-old cocker spaniel cross dogs over the weekend, reports claim.
The Lolita and Face/Off starlet, who posed naked in front of a school blackboard in a PETA animal rights advertisement, then reportedly told the shelter workers she couldn't pay for the puppies' vaccinations.
"She said she had no money, despite [arriving] in her BMW," Fox News reported a witness as saying.
"She was really rude. Eventually she said she would make a small donation, but just left the pups there and drove off."
Swain, who has starred in 35 feature films including 2006's Alpha Dog opposite Justin Timberlake, declared that "cruelty to animals is wrong" after shooting a racy anti-fur protest when she was 21 years old.
"If all I have to do is stand in front of a blackboard naked to make people think about the cruelty that animals go through to make a fur coat, I'm perfectly willing," she said at the time.
A spokesperson for PETA condemned Swain's actions and said the organisation had not worked with her for years.
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