Why wasn't he or she credited in the cast list? Dogs and other animal "actors" are often or even usually credited, sometimes as themselves, sometimes otherwise.
BTW, dachshunds are notoriously hard to housebreak, and I'll bet they're even harder to "boat-break." It must have been hard on Errol Flynn's yacht's deck, and everyone who had to walk on it.
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This particular dashund's name escapes me-the cat on his yacht was named Bes-Mudi,and there is an Australian restaurant by that name in honor of this seafaring siamese cat! He did have a dashund puppy named Grena he accidently ran over in front of his kids-he noted crying and burying the puppy on his estate with the children. He loved animals and the monkey in the Seahawk is his own and was trained by Errol for this movie-the monkey's name was Chico. He also had a black stallion named Onyx,and that horse appeared in San Antonio and in They died with their boots on as Errol's mount. He even calls Onyx by name in San Antonio,and the horse visibly reacts to his name. The "drunk" cat that is on the bar in San Antoinio as a sight gag is also reputedly a Flynn cat. He also helped introduce African lionhounds to the West coast and even won some dog show ribbons in competition. He also knew dressage and was in a few horse shows too,most memorably showing horses for Eleanor Roosevelt in Maryland during WWII/ Another obscure fact is that his father was a great marine scientist/biologist,and that Errol actually saw and handled one of the first playpus to survive in captivity as a young boy of about 7 or so.
Another obscure fact about this film is that all the aerial camerawork from the mast and the rigging were done by Flynn himself!
As far as "boat training", Errol had his terrier Arno boat trained by having potted plants on the yacht but that couldn't help a low to the ground dog like a dashund,so who knows.
Thanks, Sktdoctor7.:o) That's a lot of interesting background information. I'm sorry I didn't see it before now. I let myself get busy with other things, and didn't think to check this MB again until today.
My parents had a dachshund who died of natural causes at just short of age 10 recently. He was more a surrogate child than a pet, and they took it pretty hard. I buried him in their back yard.
We had another dachshund when I was a toddler. I really can't remember her. She was run over by a car and killed before quite reaching adulthood.
A neighbor had a dachshund puppy which he didn't see close behind him and he accidentally stepped back and trod on it, breaking its back. I don't know if it just died from that or if they had to have it euthanized. I know they were deeply saddened by it. Dachshunds are cute, but being so low to the ground has its dangers.
Thanks again.
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BTW, that was not a pure bred doxy. The face is right, can't see the front paws very well, but the hind quarters is all wrong--the legs are too long. Doxys are bred with very strong tails that are extensions of their spines so a farmer could pull the doxy out of the badger's den by their tails if they got stuck.
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