Beginning Tuesday, October 2 at 9pm

By Valerie Milano

Beverly Hills, CA (Hollywood Today) 9/28/12 – “This is a series that is near and dear to my heart. I have amassed television and film credits, but helping animals and finding them loving homes is my passion,” said animal activist and co-host Allison Eastwood.

Last night at the Paley Center of Media, Nat Geo Wild screened their premiere of “Animal Intervention”.

The series examines people keeping wild and exotic animals in their homes and offers intervention style education in order to get these beautiful and not very pet-like animals into suitable habitats.

Co-host and animal expert, Donald Schultz was on hand to answer questions after the screening. Originally from South Africa offered him a different variety of back yard animals to deal with, “it made it easy to get into dangerous animal situations” when cobras and great whites are in your midst.

Schultz began working professionally at the age of 13 on a snake farm then at 22, moved to the States to work in veterinary hospitals and shelters.  After seeing a pattern of the same situations he found himself getting restless and went back into snake training and the road has taken him to “Animal Intervention”, beginning Tuesday, October 2 at 9pm.

The series shows people who feel that living with tigers on leashes, a leopard swiping in private home, pet bears, hair-pulling monkeys caged in RV’s are suitable pets and suitable living conditions. And these people are adamant about keeping them even when faced with dangerous situations and living conditions.

“Coming from a world of exotic animals, my heart is with what is the best thing for animals and the best thing for people. Definitely not prohibition, because then it becomes black market,” which no one wants to happen.

Eastwood and Shultz travel around the country trying to offer humane solutions for the people and the animals in animal interventions.