The Downside of Popular Dog Movies

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This is the kindest and most humane board I have come across on this particular site. I have not seen this movie because, in all honesty, I cannot watch a move if the dog dies—and I don’t know whether Winn-Dixie lives or dies. Tears my heart out if the dog dies. Anyway, I have never had a dog that was not a “mutt” or a rescue. I still miss my little girl Hank, who died almost three years ago. She was the runt of the litter and not expected to live past a couple of months. She was 12 when she died. I now have 2 girls—Gracie and Sadie. Gracie was in the shelter and due to be put down in 48 hours. She’s one of those hyper, needs-much-attention pups that most people can’t put in the time with. She was adopted and returned twice (adopted apparently because she’s a pretty girl). We’ve had her for almost 3 years now and I can’t imagine not having her. She’s still energetic and aggravating at times, but she’s a complete sweetheart and extremely smart. All she needed was some training and a lot of love and patience. I found Sadie while working on a litigation prep project at a now-defunct uranium mine in nowhere New Mexico. She was just a baby, but filthy and starved and running with a pack of almost-wild dogs in a place with no real accessible food and water, but she didn’t seem ready to give up. I loved her the second I met her. I was told that when she showed up at the site, she actually collapsed from apparent starvation. Well, she came home with me. She needed more medical attention than a lot of dogs, but we have a fantastic vet who took great care of her. She’s now healthy, well-fed, very much loved, and very comfortable in her home. She’s a little cuddle bug and I couldn’t love her more. She’s not a beautiful dog in the sense that most people look for, but her heart is what counts. Our dogs are our family—the kind of family that we wouldn’t leave a burning house without. The point in all of this—and I realize it’s long—is that pets are not fads or fashion accessories. A dog is not a Prada handbag or a fancy pair of running shoes that you can toss in the back of the closet because it’s out of fashion in 6 months. It angers and hurts me that people treat animals as such. But in this world, anyone can have a child or a pet without any particular qualification. I don’t have a suggestion as to how to change that at this point…but give me time.

One word: "dalmatians"