Does the dog die?
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The Plague Dogs
Movie • 1982 • Adventure
ReportThe Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake.
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christopherleepompa
Simply put, if you are deeply disturbed by any depiction of animal cruelty, do not watch this movie.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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a fox dies and is seen dead
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Are animals abused?
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Lostsoullover
The whole movie is about the cruelty of humans and animal testing.
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EllieAdkinson
Dogs struggle with their environment and engage in verbal arguments with one another, but no actual dogfights like the question intended.
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Is there a dead animal?
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QuintusHazard
At the start of the movie when Harry is feeding the dogs in their pens, he finds that one of the dogs has died in its pen and removes the body. A little later on, the dog's body is put into the furnace where Rowf and Snitter are resting. Dead sheep are seen throughout as Rowf and Snitter hunt. When The Tod is killed near the end of the movie, he is partially seen dead when a soldier picks him up by the tail.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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QuintusHazard
Rabbits are kept in the scientific facility. Despite their cramped conditions, they aren't actually harmed onscreen.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone held under water?
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No one is physically held underwater, however there is on screen showing of a dog being forced to stay in a tank of water until he dr*wns and is resuscitated.
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Is someone restrained?
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QuintusHazard
At some point in the movie, Snitter is trapped in a shed - a man comes along and grabs Snitter by the leg so that he can't move until Rowf bites the man's arm.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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ellaur
In an experiment, a dog is left to drown to death, before being pulled out and resuscitated, only for the process to repeat.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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QuintusHazard
Rowf falls unconscious at the start of the movie after being forced to swim in a water tank.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Redz
One of the dogs went through a brain surgery and suffer seizures as a result.
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Is someone tortured?
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UnagioLucio
Dog are experimented upon in cruel ways.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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The Tod startles a hunter at the top of a cliff, causing him to fall to his death.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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The Tod risks his life to distract the soldiers and their dogs while Rowf and Snitter escape; he is killed by the soldiers' dogs.
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Are there jump scares?
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QuintusHazard
At the start of the movie, Rowf's head suddenly appears above the water with a bark that might startle viewers. This happens after the camera zooms up quickly towards the top of the tank from the bottom.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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The movie is set in the Lake District so there are lakes. The ocean also features near the end.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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EllieAdkinson
Not wet themselves, exactly, but there are multiple instances of dogs taking a leak, one of which results in a human female character stepping in her dog’s “puddle,” and there is one instance of a human male character taking a leak in the snow, shown from behind so you see it steaming up from the snow.
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Is someone eaten?
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spirochaete
The dogs eat the body of the marksman who falls to his death, although his half-eaten remains are only present in the full 103 minute version.
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Snitter is mentally unwell after having had experiments performed on his brain.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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QuintusHazard
Snitter, who could be considered to be mentally ill due to the surgeries performed on his brain, lashes out at Rowf near the beginning of the movie, though this is just to get them out of a furnace where they are in danger.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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QuintusHazard
Near the start of the movie, Rowf becomes angry at the sound of another dog repeatedly howling.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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QuintusHazard
Snitter often suffers flashbacks to his master's death, brought on by roads and a drain as straight as the lines on a road.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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UnagioLucio
The fox that travels with the dogs is killed. What ultimately happens to the two main dogs is not shown, but it is likely that they drowned.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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QuintusHazard
Snitter's owner is shown to have been hit by a car in a flashback. In the movie the owner is no longer seen and it is reasonable to assume that he is dead, however the book shows that Snitter's owner survived and recovered in hospital.
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Does someone drown?
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UnagioLucio
There are several scenes of dogs drowning or almost drowning.
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Is there gun violence?
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UnagioLucio
Yes, and it's a particularly disturbing and tragic example. The dogs find a friendly hunter who greets them. While jumping at his legs in excitement, one of the dogs accidentally pulls the trigger on the man's rifle, shooting him in the face.
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