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Hollywood animal trainer Sid Yost has been fined $30,000 by the U.S. government for around 40 abuse and neglect violations dating back to 2008.

Louisiana-based Yost has also had his Animal Welfare Act license revoked, effectively putting him out of business to directly handle or supply animals to Hollywood film and TV projects. Yost's screen credits include Get Out, The Hunger Games, 12 Years a Slave and Lee Daniels' The Butler on the movie side, and TV series Sleepy Hollow and Ravenswood.

The Awa violations detailed in a U.S. Department of Agriculture decision on Sidney Jay Yost and his company, Amazing...

Lousiana-based animal trainer Sidney Yost is having another great year professionally. For the big screen, he has been hired to coordinate or provide animals on prominent 2013 releases ranging from Lee Daniels’ The Butler and 12 Years a Slave to 2 Guns and Olympus Has Fallen. For television, he has worked on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, A&E’s miniseries Bonnie and Clyde (debuting Dec. 8) and Ravenswood for ABC Family. On the horizon, according to Yost’s website, is work on the Kevin Costner indie drama Black and White and the MGM comedy Hot Tub Time Machine 2.

Yet Yost, who operates out of his 58-acre Nola Movie Ranch near ...

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