Only 3 kittens left?

Well thats how wilderness is.Foodchain
All i want in life is to be happy.

> Totally unnecessary as it's a movie for children. <

Bambi had a death in it and it was required for the story. Maybe not for this movie, but that doesn't mean death should be written out of every (children's) movie.

> The makers might have thought it showed realism but as they did not bother to show realism in other parts the point is moot. <

That same things happen in other movies regarding lack of realism.

> There is so much pain everywhere - can't we at least have some happy movies? <

It's how I view this phrasing, but I can't help but be reminded about a high-profiled celebrity-endorsed animal group that says animals shouldn't be killed for fur at all.

And just because the movie ended meant that the movie was a happy one. If the movie was terrible by one's standards, one could care less whether the movie is a "happy" one or not. I think I would anything made by Japan or the Asian countries, because while the people in the USA don't like death in children's entertainment, the stories in Japanese anime don't tippy-toe around it (while the USA might cut it, at least a few years ago).

> I get really upset when animals die and tend to avoid movies about animals so I don't get depressed. I thought I was safe watching a Disney movie. I think events like these put subtle bad messages in children's minds, i.e. unnatural death is common, almost normal, it does not prevent "happy end", get used to it... We should not get used to it but fight it. It's not a given that this world must be a brutal place. <

At the same time, all kids have to do it watch or hear news about an ongoing war or peace keeping operation where another soldier dies. How the parents react to it may be the key factor. If adults don't talk to kids about death, will the kids turn to their parents when a death happens to someone close to them? And death may or may not be in a person's control to prevent. There would be other activities that would improve the world instead of just trying to prevent death suddenly or on short notice.

This is one of the few movies to have made me cry. Granted I was a child at the time, but I was still pissed that I could not stop bawling at that part. I kept making my mom rent it in a futile attempt to desensitize myself, but I just became depressed...

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the cougar did not already have one cub. i've seen this movie many many times. after the hawk carries one off, you only see 3 for the rest of the film. at the very end, the 4th one runs up and rejoins the rest of them.