# Movies that have the dog die (possible spoilers?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744 "2009-04-20T17:00:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/21 "2009-04-20T18:15:02Z")
Does _Watchmen_ count, or do the dogs have to die of natural causes? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/22 "2009-04-20T18:24:12Z")
The dogs that are tracking Rambo in _First Blood_ get it. Not all 8 of the dogs in _Eight Below_ make it back. Dogs are subjected to unnatural indignities before dying in _Alien3_ and _The Hulk_. And of course, any movie with dogfighting (_Fresh, Amores Perros_) will have a dead canine or two. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/23 "2009-04-20T18:26:07Z")
I’m sick of these motherfuckin’ dogs on this motherfuckin’ plane! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/24 "2009-04-20T18:27:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’m sick of these motherfuckin’ dogs on this motherfuckin’ plane! He did get payback for what he did for that dog, though. ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/25 "2009-04-20T18:32:18Z")
A dog dies as a key plot point in the new short “Tender as Hellfire” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/26 "2009-04-20T18:45:12Z")
Holy cow! Just realized nobody mentioned _Jaws_ yet. _Mars Attacks!_, too. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/27 "2009-04-20T18:51:44Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Just realized nobody mentioned _Jaws_ yet. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/28 "2009-04-20T18:53:41Z")
The animated film _The Plague Dogs_ ends with an assumption that the two canine protagonists die – drowning while trying to escape the Biritsh military. The novel contains an extra chapter in which the dogs are rescued by a passing boat but the film gives no hint to that. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/29 "2009-04-20T18:54:31Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > After watching “My Dog Skip,” I recommended it to my mother. She asked me, “This isn’t one of those movies in which the dog dies, is it?” I had to assure her it isn’t. And he doesn’t die in the movie, even though there is a scene in which Skip is injured and it looks bad for him. I know this isn’t what the thread was asking, but I had to share. Actually, I believe he does die. But of old age–not some horrific accident or rabies. Its after the boy is grown. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/30 "2009-04-20T18:54:49Z")
I’m not sure what happened to that puppy in **Apocalypse Now** , but the outlook wasn’t looking rosy. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/31 "2009-04-20T19:44:20Z")
> [@hellpaso](#): > > Actually, I believe he does die. But of old age–not some horrific accident or rabies. Its after the boy is grown. I know. But his death isn’t depicted in the movie. It’s just mentioned by the character that the dog lived to see him off to college and lived to a ripe old age. It’s not a dramatic scene important to the plot. It’s not a tragic death like Old Yeller’s. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/32 "2009-04-20T20:05:18Z")
In _The Osterman Weekend,_ not only does the dog die, its head gets chopped off and then put in the refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/33 "2009-04-20T20:06:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I know. But his death isn’t depicted in the movie. It’s just mentioned by the character that the dog lived to see him off to college and lived to a ripe old age. It’s not a dramatic scene important to the plot. It’s not a tragic death like Old Yeller’s. Yeah. I mean, we accept that dogs are going to die eventually. Having to kill your own dog that’s gone rabid after it saved your life is pretty horrifying, though. This wasn’t a movie, but the book Where the Red Fern Grows is another sad one with not one, but TWO doggie deaths. I cried. ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/34 "2009-04-20T20:17:51Z")
Amores Perros ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/35 "2009-04-20T20:19:34Z")
_T2_, but it’s off screen, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/36 "2009-04-20T20:50:07Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Yeah. I mean, we accept that dogs are going to die eventually. Having to kill your own dog that’s gone rabid after it saved your life is pretty horrifying, though. That’s correct. My mom didn’t want to watch the movie if it showed the dog dying a tragic death before the movie’s end. She wasn’t interested in watching a sad movie. I had to spoil it for her. The dog gets hurt and its life is in jeopardy, but survives for many more years and dies a natural death. Of course the death of any animal is sad, but an animal dying in a horrible accident or as a result of a human killing it is ten thousand times more upsetting. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/37 "2009-04-20T20:58:36Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > _T2_, but it’s off screen, IIRC. The more I think about this, the less sure I am. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/38 "2009-04-20T21:14:21Z")
Well, thank goodness the dog _didn’t_ die in the movie they made out of Harlan Ellison’s **A Boy and His Dog** , y’know? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/39 "2009-04-20T21:24:11Z")
I love that movie. “She may have had bad judgment, but she had really good taste.” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744/40 "2009-04-20T21:31:45Z")
39 posts and no mention of _Snakes on a Plane_? What is wrong with you folks? ETA: Oops. I see that a tangential reference was made. Never mind. My faith has been restored. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-the-dog-die-possible-spoilers/493744.md?page=3)