We just got done watching the movie The Plague Dogs in class. This movie was pretty depressing and definitely not a kids movie. The movie is designed to make us feel foe the dogs. They make an effort to appeal to our emotions. They present a strong emotional case against animal cruelty. I don't think the way they treated Ralph is justified. There are other ways to test this same thing. Putting a dog in a tank of water and letting him drown then rescueing him is not the best way to do this. The lab that Ralph and Snitter came from was working with the Bubonic Plague. This is the reason why everyone was trying to catch them. Through out the whole movie, everytime Todd the fox, Ralph and Snitter come across water, Ralph would freeze up. He would try to find a way across the water without touching it. Those experiments hurt him in more than one way. Besides the fact that they were drowning him, he also has a huge fear of water now. In the end though, Ralph overcame this fear in order to get away from the people. Him and Snitter swam to the island. It was really foggy and they couldn't really see the island. They both wanted to give up and stop swimming but they encouraged each other to keep going. It never shows whether or not they made it to the island. I would like to think that they did though.
We discussed the book in class a little as well. In the book there is a lot more narrative about the three animals. You spend a lot more time with Todd the fox. In both the movie and the book, Snitter's master gets hits by a car. Snitter is under the assumption that his master died. At the end of the book Snitter finds out that his master is not dead. His master saves him and Ralph and there is a happy ending to this book. The ending of the movie is not so clear though.
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