Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety (1986)

Directed by

Les Drew

Genre

animation

Country

Canada

Runtime

10 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dog named Wally tries to keep his human family safe as they carelessly prepare for a dinner party. The short film shows different household dangers through comedic situations.

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What happens

Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Les Drew for the National Film Board of Canada and released in 1986. The film's central character is Wally (Paul Brown), a dog who is frantically trying to protect his new family from their own careless actions as they prepare for a dinner party. The film's voice cast also includes Luba Goy as Honey, Harvey Atkin as Bernard and Henry Beckman as The Boss. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987. Drew released a sequel film, Every Dog's Guide to the Playground, in 1991. Both films were broadcast in the United States on Cartoon Network's O Canada anthology series of NFB animated shorts, and were packaged together in 1996 for home video release as The Blue Dog Safety Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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