Does The Dog Die? is a vital tool for all dog-loving cinephiles
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The efficiently-named Does The Dog Die? site allows you to search for a film before you've watched it and screen it for the death of any nice pups.
Movies are categorised into three groups: 'No pets die', 'A pet is injured or appears dead but ultimately live' and 'A pet dies.' Most come with a description of what happens to said pet.
In a bid to create as extensive a filmic dog death database (FDDDb?) as possible, the movies are identified by other users - essentially the categorisation is crowdsourced.
This does, however, present complete anarchists with the opportunity of assuring people that the slobbery, affectionate French mastiff lives in Turner & Hooch (N.B. never watch this film).
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