#rowf plague dogs

[vixymix101]

Plague puppies!~

[blueylovesssanimating]

THE PLAGUE DOGS!! + some Watership Down doodles!

[theboysfromaustin]

I don't feel no pain no more

[pngblog]

can you do pngs of black newfoundland dogs, please?

—@mostly-minecraft-zvahl

[robinfae]

I recently read The Plague Dogs and was enamored by this one little scene

[punkpetrifiedofpoltergeists]

What's left of my art after I purged it all lol

[hazel-jane]

Rowf redraw

[seb-the-rizzler]

The Plague Dogs will be one of my favourite movies for now and till I die ❤

This movie broke me

Snitter: I can't swim anymore, Rowf...

Rowf: We must... be near the island...

Snitter: If... there is... any island, Rowf...

Rowf: There is. There. Can't you see it? Our island...

[goosened]

My designs for the two main characters in Richard Adams’ The Plague Dogs!

I’m really very happy with these. Snitter was a challenge for me due to the face shape of fox terriers, but I like how they both came out! It’s pretty much how I envisioned them both during the story, so I’m happy to be able to draw this.

[plague-rot]

I'm a whitecoat

[nightolmaster]

The Plague Dogs. One of the darkest and controversial animations from the early 80s. When I watch the film, I wasn’t too disturbed to the point I turn it off, but I did get a bit shocked at some scenes.

[vixymix101]

Peace

[human-enrichment]

What’s fucked up is with no context and just half a thumbnail, my first thought was “That looks like Rowf” - I don’t know why I’m shocked every time I run into someone that book’s left an impression on, it’s not like it’s obscure.

Anyway awesome art.

Rowf.

A sketch that got out of hand. Poor boy.

[sent-from-the-skolopender]

Characters I Relate To…

got bored so uhhh here! Sydney not included bc that’s more than a relate.

Elijah Volkov (the obsession part) -CHNT

Rowf- The plague dogs

Blackavar- OG Watershipdown

Sora- WOF

Sol- Warriors

Four - BFDI

Book - BFDI

Sha - TWF

Bon- TWF

Basil- Omori

Five Pebbles- Rainworld

Pearl & Spinel - SU

Blitz & Stolas - HB(don’t support creator, don’t rlly like the show but..damn those two)

Liam - HFJONE

okay i’m done. wow do we notice the theme here…cough…

[bonefall]

thank you for mentioning watership down's misogyny issue. i love the book, but a lot of people fail to mention how egregious the misogyny is. Richard Adams clearly just has a problem with women LOL like idk if you've ever READ Plague Dogs but..... Eep!

I'm mega critical of everything I love, I just really like media analysis lmao. I think Watership Down is one of my favorite xenofiction series, tbh

I never read Plague Dogs, only watched the movie and cried for three days straight. I heard the ending of the book-

(SPOILERS)

Apparently underwent publisher tampering and has a happy ending shoehorned in, which... bro I can't deal with the idea of that story ending happily, what I like so much about it was that the dogs reclaimed their lives in death, y'know?

That they are finally free of the humans because The Island is a metaphor. That even in terms of a story that you, a human, is watching... you can't use them anymore. Rowf and Snitter are dead and that makes them truly and completely free.

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Plague Dogs (1982)

Although The Plague Dogs is often crushingly sad, I could actually see someone calling it their favorite movie. It isn’t exactly the kind of animated film you’d randomly watch but it’s so skillfully made it becomes uplifting despite the dour subject matter. Animal lovers beware, this one will likely have you in tears.

Rowf (Christopher Benjamin), a labrador-mix, and Snitter (John Hurt) a smooth fox terrier, are used for experimental purposes at an animal facility in the Lake District of north-western England. When they escape, they have to face the difficult realities of life in the wild: not only do they have to find food and shelter, but their former captors are after them.

Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs makes its agenda clear from the start: vivisections and animal research for its own sake are morally wrong and needlessly cruel. The first scene shows Rowf paddling in a tank of water until he is exhausted and falls down into the water to drown. He is then revived by the “white coats” and brought back into his cage. The humans comment on how long the dog took to succumb to fatigue. Immediately, the scenario you just saw flashes through your mind over and over. We don’t know how many times Rowf was subjected to this experiment but it’s enough to have given him a phobia of water. At least you can sort of see why the scientists put Rowf through - in theory anyway. Not so much for Snitter. A brain operation performed on him makes him prone to sudden blindness and hallucinations. More than once, he is unable to discern whether the room he’s stepped in is a new place, the home of his former master (whose death he blames on himself) or the laboratory he escaped from. What purpose could that procedure serve?

You’re starting on a downer with the two emotionally or physically damaged animals. Then, they escape. You think maybe the film will get a little lighter in tone… but it doesn’t. There are very few- if any - moments of respite as the dogs contest with the cold and hunger. We’ve seen many films with talking animals. Most of the time, if you really take a long, hard look at these stories, you’ll see that the animals are not real animals. They’re merely people in costumes given ticks that make them resemble our four-legged friends. Not here. When Rowf and Snitter see snow, they don’t understand what it is. When they encounter other dogs, they struggle to comprehend why they watch over sheep. There is so much about the world they don’t understand that you doubt they’ll make it through the winter - even with the help of The Tod (voiced by James Bolam), a fox who agrees to teach them to hunt in exchange for a share of their kills.

There's a glimmer of hope in The Plague Dogs. It has to do with the protagonists' escape and what it will mean for the animals remaining in the facility. As Rowf and Snitter encounter people, rumors that they carry the bubonic plague (hence the title) reach the media. The longer they evade capture, the more unwanted attention is directed toward the laboratory from which they escaped. It’s not much and writer/director Martin Rosen even doubles down on the tragedy by changing the ending of the book - in what I would call a good move because it feels truer to the story.

Before you start thinking that this film isn’t for you, that it’s too much of a downer, know that The Plague Dogs does not lump all of humanity together. Several people are very sympathetic towards the dogs. It’s just that unfortunately, their hands are often tied or that they are unable to do anything but leave the animals alone. Also, understand that this film was made in 1982. This is a movie that's been seen and that has moved people. This guarantees that things have improved significantly since.

The Plague Dogs is likely to make you cry. At the very least, it will make you sad and upset. On the right day, that might be exactly what you’re looking for. On every other, it’s a well-made film that makes you think and that ending - it’s unforgettable. (On Blu-ray, January 20, 2023)