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March was a weird month for dog You shouldn’t need me to tell you in Lilo and Stitch (2002) when Lilo
lovers: record low entries and visitor which spotted breed stars in 101 explains that Stitch - a blue alien
attendance at Crufts (with 11,500 Dalmatians (1961). However, there posing as her dog - “used to be a
less spectators than 2019); the are a number of other purebred- Collie before he got ran over”. Finally,
commencement of the coronavirus looking dogs in the movie, including 2008’s Bolt starred a white spitz type
lockdown, and the subsequent a Pug, a Standard Poodle, an Afghan, of indeterminate breed.
cancellation or deferment of most of a Labrador, a Collie, and the shaggy
the shows planned for Spring and Colonel, who could be a Bearded re-makes & sequels
Summer 2020. Thankfully, on the Collie. If the animated version of Lady and
24th Disney launched their Disney The 70s and 80s were good to hound the Tramp isn’t enough for you,
Plus streaming service in the UK, lovers. Despite being a film about Disney released a live action direct-to-
offering us a myriad of canine cinema cats, The Aristocats (1970) has streaming remake in 2019. There was
to pass the time until things get two French farm dogs to appease also an animated sequel released in
back to normal. The list below is not the canine lovers in the audience; 2001. Meanwhile, 101 Dalmatians
exhaustive; I’ve focussed on those Napoleon, a Bloodhound type, and is a Disney gift which keeps giving;
films which offer something for the Lafayette, who is definitely a Basset. there’s the classic animation, the live
pure breed aficionado readers of K9 The Fox and the Hound (1981) also action remake (1996), a live action
News. features undetermined American sequel (2002), and an animated
ClassiC animated CharaCters hounds in Chief and Copper; in the sequel (2003). There is also a Fox
original novel they were a Black and and the Hound 2 (2006).
Let’s start with the Classics. Lady and Tan Coonhound and Bloodhound It’s worth mentioning Togo here,
the Tramp (1955) features a purebred cross, but Disney presents Chief as which is actually, in a way, a re-telling
Bloodhound, a Scottish Terrier, and a grey dog, said by some to be an of a Universal Pictures movie called
an American Cocker Spaniel, as Irish Wolfhound. Later, there was The Balto (1995). During the 1925 Serum
well as a handful of rescue dogs Great Mouse Detective’s (1986) Toby, Run, sled dog teams traversed 674
of various shapes a villain-tracking Basset. miles in just over five days to deliver
and sizes. It’s been Then, in 1988, Disney gave us their lifesaving medicine to diphtheria-
claimed that Peg, first animated showdog, in the form stricken Nome, in remote Alaska. As
the stray who of Georgette, a highly pampered and the lead dog of the final leg of the
sings “He’s coifed Standard Poodle, in Oliver relay, Balto got much of the glory at
a Tramp”, and Company. Her song “Perfect the time of the original event (and a
is either Isn’t Easy” espouses her glamorous statue in Central Park, New York). But
a Tibetan lifestyle and champion attitude, as do one musher and his lead dog, Togo,
Spaniel or her multiple blue ribbons, trophies and completed by far the longest and most
a Pekingese title. In the same film, Dodger’s gang difficult leg of the journey. Disney gets
–more likely of street dogs includes a Chihuahua, to set the record straight with this new
the latter, a Great Dane, and a Bulldog. live-action film, released in 2019.
given that
The Little Mermaid (1989) had Max,
the Tibetan the Pixar Pets
an Old English Sheepdog, while
Spaniel wasn’t Pocahontas (1995) had Percy the Dogs abound in the Pixar movies as
recognised by the Pug. And let’s not forget the reference well, from Buster the Dachshund in
American Kennel Club until 1983.

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