Brolin Recalls High-flying Animal Rescues

JOSH BROLIN has opened up about the extent of his animal rescue adventures when he was a child in a new magazine interview, revealing he and his father would release coyotes into the wild.

The actor’s late mother was conservationist Jane Cameron Agee, who ran a big cat sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California - and her efforts to keep wild creatures safe became a family affair.

W star Brolin recalls taking off on road trips with his mum to help find abandoned pets homes in zoos - and to take some home. But it was high-flying adventures with his dad, James Brolin, that really thrilled the youngster.

He tells Playboy magazine, “My dad is a good, not great pilot, and in his small plane we’d take off from this dirt airstrip in Paso Robles with coyotes in plastic boxes in the back, land in the Mojave Desert, release the coyotes and come home.”