.... is about to start on BBC4, at 9pm (tonight Sunday 26th)
It's apparently an 'adult' animated film about a GSD named Tulip. Highly rated by the critics.

Awww, I didn't realise it was on, I have the book, funny and sad all at once.

I read the book ages ago, put it onto record - will watch it at some point :-)

It was really lovely, bittersweet, despite morally a product of its era (1950's). The animation was more than lifelike and I loved the "sketchbook" parts where he imagined his dog as a human being! I won't say any more or it might spoil the surprises. Definitely adult, funny and not anthropomorphic at all... I think any dog owner will warm to it, and I was laughing out loud at times.

I'll make a point of watching it, although at the very end of the book I could have whacked the man.

> I'll make a point of watching it, although at the very end of the book I could have whacked the man.

Yeah... I might have done the same if I'd known him... but I took at as a period piece from times less enlightened than ours.

Definitely a product of the 50's.    But a lovely film of a byegone era.     Loved the bits where the dogs were seen as furry humans and loved his writing.

I too could have knocked some sense into the man at the end of the film but that's what people were like then.   Sadly some still haven't changed much despite the amount of info readily available today :(

I thought it was an excellent film, very sensitivly written/done.

It did leave me wondering though, in over half a century, how much has really changed?

Hopefully most people will not object to picking up dog mess outside a shop (!) and vets are better behaved. But there are still plenty of dogs bought without thought and relegated to the garden/yard and there are still many dogs being thoughtlessly bred from and the offspring offloaded to anyone with no interest (better not to know) in their fate. A product of the 50's it might well have been but many parts still would appear to hold true today. :-(

The quote at the end of the film was perfect though and really beautiful :-)