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Jim Morris

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I'm currently doing a hasty tribute to Hachiko. If you're very brave, watch Richard Geer's film "Hachi" without a tear. I couldn't watch it again if you paid me. "And strong men shall weep silent tears". Women don't make excuses https://www.cesarsway.com/hachiko-story-hachi/

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Marjorie Firth

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I’m afraid I can’t watch any film or read any book with animals in. Couldn’t even watch Lassie Jim. Too upsetting…..so I won’t be watching your film, however good it might be. I remember going to see a play version of “ The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime”….started with a dead dog….. Some people might think that ridiculous, doesn’t bother me…that’s me.

Sylvia Evans

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No I won't be watching it either.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Any hint of animal cruelty - animal suffering - death, save in extremely rare circumstances, if it's a natural and peaceful exit for example - and I'm out of the cinema, changing the channel, discarding the book.  I got through Oliver Twist because Bill Sykes was outwitted by his dog and couldn't kill him.  Just as well Dickens spared him, even as a plot device, or I'd have missed the ending of a great novel (it really is, incidentally).  I wasn't like this as a child, but since then I've nursed too many dying animals through their last hours - I just can't be doing with re-living those experiences. The Curious Incident book - I did get through that, but it was a struggle and a half: I don't think I understood it, and I certainly didn't enjoy it.  
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Helen Martell

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I read something about this dog on an online news reel just today. His owner/master died, but he went to the train station every day for years to wait for him…. 😢
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Peter Smith

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Sounds like Greyfriars Bobby. It doesn't appeal to me as a film. 
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Jim Morris

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Just to put the score straight, "A Dog's Tale" the film,  has no animal cruelty in it, indeed it is just the opposite. I't a story of affection between a man and his dog and the animals devotion to his master even after he passed away. A tear-jerker, certainly, but in the best possible way.