Review of A Dog's Purpose (2017) by Theicephoenix — 04 Apr 2017

My thoughts on the Movie A Dogs Purpose. One of the most heartfelt movies I've ever seen.

Let me start by warning you this movie will probably make you cry if you ever owned a dog.

A Dog's Purpose is an outstanding movie about a dog's love for their Dogs Best Friend/Human. This movie visually shows many different ways that dogs are treated good/happy and unfortunately bad/sad . A Dog's Purpose does a superb job at building up heartfelt emotion in a short amount of time in many ways just like Marley and Me did. It is an absolute shame that this movie has be swept under the rug by many people because they believe everything they read on the internet and dont think/research things for themselves. The controversial videos show that "Hercules", the dog in the scene that particular scene went viral, was apparently being forced into the water. When in fact Hercules was chosen to do this scene because of his affinity to water. He was trained to jump in on the opposite side of the pool to what was shown in the video. After the trainer tried to calm him by allowing him test out the water and the dog still was spooked, they stopped attempting the scene from that side and waited for a while. There were multiple people in the water if something happened. There even a trained diver under the dog at all times. However, PETA and many other news organization's dont want to report this because it doesn't make news only drama does. I have had 4 dogs in my life, and I have always been interested small animal welfare and at one point even was preparing to try and become a small animal Veterinarian so I have heard about and seen many cases of animal abuse and a dog getting wet is not a form of abuse. The movie builds a human's love for their dog, and it really portrays how a dog is truly a man's best friend. If this movie wasn't boycotted, I honestly feel like it could have been a very beneficial movie to help gets more animals adopted from shelters and as such I feel that false accusations actually cause more harm for dogs then it helped and I mean this literally, as many people who may have been inspired to adopt a Dog because of this movie wont and thus cause those pups that could have been adopted by them and on the last stage will be put down. So what good did it do? false accusations by PETA and other people about cruelty actually caused a lot more.