By short, I mean 25 minutes.
I’m sure the stats have changed, but this is called Ten Million Books.
It is sorrowfully moving to listen that passage about Mutt’s death read aloud. (The dog who portrays him is a springer/BC cross.)
Those black dogs with short hair are St. John’s water dogs– among the last of their breed.
I don’t know what the long-haired black dogs are.
This documentary is well worth watching. In it, you learn many things– what subjective nonfiction is, why Mowat started writing about his childhood dog, and Mowat’s enchantment and later disenchantment with Newfoundland.
It’s worth your 25 minutes.
Trust me.
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Sometimes, I have hard time accessing videos on Canadian sites– maybe because they say so many awful things about us!
LOL
The last book of Mowat’s I read, he made a point to make sure his readers knew that Americans were jeering Canada entering the Second World War because they were just taking order from their king. He spent the summer before the war traveling around the American West.