
“We have video showing the dog on A Dog’s Purpose being thrown in the water and nearly drowning. Comment?”Īnd with that, I became part of today’s quick-to-judge, hateful, ALL CAPS SCREAMING culture, firmly in the cross-hairs of a fringe group seeking to ban animals from filmed entertainment. Fernandez, "DreamWorks picks up film rights to W.The call from TMZ was brutally abrupt.

Bailey, who realizes that he is now a girl, is picked out and named Ellie by a police officer, named Jakob, and trained to be a search-and-rescue dog. Soon, Ethan's mother and grandparents take him to the vet, where he is once again put down.īailey wakes up once again as a German Shepherd.

Bailey's health starts to decline, with him taking naps very often and being weak. Soon after moving, Ethan goes off to college, leaving Bailey with infrequent visits from him during the holidays. Around that time, things are not going well in the family, with Ethan's injury, an eventual breakup with Hannah, and a divorce between Ethan's parents. Ethan goes to live with his grandparents at their farm in Michigan so he can be with his girlfriend Hannah and finish his senior year in high school.
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Over the course of many years, Bailey lives a full life with Ethan, and accompanies him through many difficulties, including arson, which leads to Ethan permanently injuring his leg, and ending his promising athletic career. She brings him home, and presents him to her eight-year-old son, Ethan. After the man has been gone for several hours, Toby begins suffering from heat exhaustion in the cab.Ī woman breaks the car window, and rescues Toby.
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A truck driver picks up Toby on the road and calls him "Fella." The man drives to a bar.

Toby climbs up onto a table and bites the doorknob, opening the gate to the outside world and leaving him to explore the real world. A few weeks after birth, when Toby and his new brothers and sisters have matured enough, he and the others are allowed to play outside the cage. Toby now is reincarnated as a Golden Retriever puppy and is nursing from a new mother.

Many dogs, including Toby, are subsequently euthanized. Not long after, animal control service agents arrive with orders to shut down the place due to poor sanitation and welfare conditions. A new dog arrives, named Spike, who is very aggressive with the other dogs, and injures Toby. One day, many of the newer dogs at the Yard are whisked off to a building (a veterinarian office). The narrator, named Toby by Senora, adjusts to his new lifestyle. The dogs arrive at a place called the Yard, where dozens of abandoned dogs reside under the guidance of a gentle old woman whom the narrator calls Senora. A few weeks later, after being nursed by their mother, a feral as well, the dog and his siblings Fast, Sister, and Hungry go outside of their den to explore the woods around them. The narrator first starts out as a feral puppy.
