I enjoy reading
books or watching movies that have a pet of some sort. Or even movies that are just about the
animals themselves such as “Homeward Bound” or “Milo
and Otis.”
One thing I hate though is if
something terrible happens to the pet or worse if the pet is killed. Maybe it’s because I saw “Ole Yeller” when I
was a kid and remember bawling my eyes out when Travis has to kill Yeller. As I grow older and more sentimental, I try
to avoid movies and books where the pet is hurt.
With books it’s a little harder to do, but for
movies, if the trailer suggests something that makes my pet antenna quiver, I
wait until I read the review or someone I know has seen the movie and ask them
if anything happens to the pet. One
example is “I Am Legend.” When it was
playing at the theater, the movie trailers looked interesting, but they
included a dog. Uh oh, my pet antenna
quivered. Once I found out that Will
Smith’s character has to kill the dog, his pet, I decided right then I wouldn’t
ever see the movie. While I have been
told, the killing was done tastefully (is that possible?) and is central to the
storyline, it still keeps me from wanting to see the movie.
How do you feel
about this? Does it bother you or do you
just accept it as part of the plot and enjoy the book/movie as a whole?
Katherine
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