Red Dog traveling overseas on a ship and then making it back seems overdoing it. I wonder if the real Red Dog actually did though. Just crossed my mind it'd be kinda hilarious if at that point in the movie, the guy's telling about where Red dog went, said: "and he was eaten"!
shareWith our strict laws regarding animals entering Australia, even though Red Dog might have had a passport:-) I think he would have had to be quarantined. I think it was poetic licence as it looked to me that Red Dog was following the trail of his dead master.
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A dog travelling illegally from Australia to Japan and back, both countries with extreme strict laws regarding animals, you cannot take that serious. Neither does the storyteller...
shareDid the fictionalised Red Dog do it? Probably not. Did the real Red Dog do it? Almost certainly not. Go to tvtropes.org and look up "unreliable narrator".
shareIn the movie I'm sure they never said he'd actually travelled to Japan, only that they'd heard he got that far. The visuals were probably just poetic licence.
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To me, it seemed some of those tales about Red Dog were yarns spun by drunken miners.
Even in the way the narrator tells the story of him going to Japan you can tell it was more of a drunken rumour. I don't think they ever state this as a FACT. Also for those bringing up quarantine laws it was the 70s haha I doubt those laws were anywhere near as strict. I to doubt it is true he made it that far but that was I guess added cause it is part of the legend that is Red Dog. As stories are passed down the generations there is always some stories that are total BS.
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