Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Based on a true story from Japan, Hachi: A Dog's Tale is a moving film about loyalty and the rare, invincible bonds that occasionally form almost instantaneously in the most unlikely places. College professor Parker Wilson (Richard Gere) finds a young Akita puppy that's been abandoned at the local train station, and he's instantly captivated by the dog.
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Assuming the dog's owner will return to the train station to claim him in the morning, Parker takes the puppy home overnight.
But when no one comes to get the dog, Parker convinces his wife, Cate (Joan Allen), to welcome him as part of the family. He dubs the puppy Hachiko--Hachi, for short--because of the Japanese symbol for good luck that's hanging from his collar. Hachi is a somewhat peculiar dog that refuses to learn to fetch or master other people-pleasing tricks, but he is a faithful companion and friend to Parker, alerting him of potential dangers and accompanying him to the train station each morning and meeting him there after his return trip each evening. An unforeseen event will continually test Hachi's devotion. This film is neither overwrought nor sappy; it is heartfelt and immensely powerful despite its tendency to drag in a few places. Prepare to be moved to tears by this beautiful, seemingly simple film--it's about so much more than just the relationship between a man and his dog. --Tami Horiuchi
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101 Dalmatians (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)

Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely dalmatians who meet cute in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney; she's flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it's the dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of the live-action remake. --Bill Desowitz
On the DVD
This two-disc platinum edition features great sound and incredibly bright, intense colors thanks to the restoration process, but its most impressive selling point is the huge assortment of bonus features designed to delight children, families, and the most serious Disney fans. Kids will have fun caring for their very own puppy in the virtual Dalmatian game for television or on DVD ROM and can find out just what kind of puppy they're most like and which human Disney character they're most compatible with in the puppy profiler game. The fun with language game is geared toward the very young preschooler and teaches numbers and the names of common household items. A modern Selena Gomez music video of "Cruella DeVil" will appeal to tweens and teens. The whole family will enjoy the "101 Pop Up Facts For Families" option which prints various movie facts like the name and author of the original book and how specific scenes differ between the book and the movie right on the screen during the movie and Disney fans will love the similar "101 Pop Up Facts For Fans" feature which supplies a wide variety of film trivia about featured voice talents, famous Disney animators that worked on the film, technical devices employed like multi-pane shots and the Xerox process, and which artists directed specific scenes in the movie. Eleven separate Backstage Disney featurettes interview a host of animators, writers, historians, producers, and story men regarding the film's contemporary feel and the groundbreaking technical processes like the then-new Xerox process utilized in making 101 Dalmatians. Also highlighted is Bill Pete's amazing storytelling contribution to the film, the technical and mechanical innovations of Ub Iwerks, the songwriting process, and the animation prowess of famous Disney animators like Woolie Reitherman, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Ken Anderson, and Walt Peregoy. The 12-minute dramatization of the longstanding correspondence between author Dodie Smith and Walt Disney is intriguing and the trailers and radio and television spots provide fun historical reference for the film and its various releases. Finally, the "Music and More" feature presents a variety of deleted and abandoned songs as well as many alternate versions and takes of songs used in the final film. --Tami Horiuchi
Stills from 101 Dalmatians (click for larger image)
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Wishbone: Terrified Terrier [VHS]

Trace Adkins continues to conquer new worlds. He has long been country music's alpha male, a man whose commanding presence and once-in-a-generation baritone have made him a pillar of the contemporary Nashville sound. But such are his other gifts a restless intellect, wide-ranging interests, great ability as a communicator that it was perhaps inevitable that his influence would spread well beyond the bounds of the genre. In the past decade, Trace has made his mark as an actor, both on television and in the movies, an author, a voiceover artist and commercial spokesman, a social commenter, and a reality show participant. His effect on businessman and showman Donald Trump was such that after his initial and highly successful appearance on Celebrity Apprentice, he was invited back as a boardroom advisor. He has turned his entertainment articulated views into a well-received book, A Personal Stand; Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck, and has even inspired an action comic book series, Luke McBain, that has proven to be one of the genre's hottest sellers.

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Free of charge Puppy Training Ideas

Your puppy instruction regimen should start the day you convey your new puppy house. Canines are always learning, but they discover best when they are youthful. This is a important time for influencing your dog's future habits. Devoid of your intervention, your canine will discover, but not what you want it to. Start implementing some simple puppy coaching tips the day your new canine companion arrives in your residence.

To help with training a puppy, make positive you provide him with a properly-fitted collar, a personal place to sleep, a designated play region, and appropriate toys. These toys belong to you, the pack leader, and should not be left lying close to. Your pup's thoughts is most open to new experiences when it is beneath 12 weeks old. The much more it experiences now - children, cats, other dogs, joggers, cyclists, child carts, vehicles, and public transport - the more it will take these things for granted. Successful puppy instruction indicates you need to make certain your pup learns as significantly as is needed, while it is nevertheless youthful, to reside the life you strategy for it.

Begin instruction a puppy as quickly as you convey it into your home. Teach the puppy your guidelines before it makes its very own. All loved ones users ought to routinely deal with a new puppy while it learns to put on a collar and lead, consume only from its personal foods bowl, sleep in its very own bed, come when known as, and wait on command. However, only 1 loved ones member should be responsible for understanding and instructing totally free puppy training suggestions.

Free Puppy Coaching Suggestions

The bed as a refuge

Dogs are interested and sociable animals, so do not isolate your new canine family users. Set up a canine bed as a personal space for the puppy, and location it in a hectic location of the residence, such as a corner of the kitchen.

Interested chewing

Pups examine their surroundings by tasting. They perform by biting, but you ought to discipline the puppy when it nips by stating "No" firmly. In no way reprimand the puppy by hitting it.

Bitter spray

A non-poisonous, bitter-tasting spray is accessible from most veterinary surgical procedures and pet outlets. Apply it to articles that you do not want the dog to chew, such as your fingers.

Learning to procrastinate

Your new puppy should understand that individuals take in prior to canine, and are consequently more dominant customers of the family, or pack.

Learning respect

A puppy need to discover to obey the loved ones in its new home, so all responsible family members ought to handle the puppy.

Individuals go 1st

Canines naturally want to rush by means of doorways initial. By educating a puppy to wait and allow you to go initial, you assert your authority over it. If the puppy does not comprehend this partnership, training can be difficult.


Positive enticement

By making use of meals enticements rather than discipline, you will discover training a puppy significantly easier as this will teach the puppy a lot more quickly which activities are not allowed.


A personal spot

Train a puppy to take pleasure in becoming left in a crate with its toys. Commence by leaving it alone for quick periods at 1st.

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