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The Tod is a character from Plague Dogs. I knew he was a good guy all along!

For those of you who don't read... it's the third novel by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down.

The film's story is centered on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake (though Martin Rosen said that this was not an anti-vivisection film, but an adventure), an idea that was only recently coming to public attention during the 1960s and 1970s.

The Tod is a fox that was encountered by Snitter and Rowf. He forges an uneasy friendship with the dogs, teaching them hunting and survival skills in return for a share of the kill. The friendship is stronger with Snitter, who understands both the tod's speech and his mode of thought. For a while the trio survive reasonably comfortably, the dogs killing sheep and fowls under the tod's guidance, but eventually the dogs' indiscreet ways drive him away, which together with the onset of winter marks the start of a much tougher phase of the dogs' fight for survival. A foxhound pack soon chases after them. In the film, The Tod uses every trick he has to distract army dogs for long enough that Rowf and Snitter can escape. He is then cornered by three German Shepherd Dogs, one of which badly injures him, rendering him a limp and weakling. He tries to escape, and jumps over a wall, but five German Shepherds leap over with ease after him.

(kudo's to cut and paste.)

He was a great character, and I must say, I'm pretty dissapointed he was killed

I don't own The Tod, I've just always loved fox's and I thought that he'd be a great character to draw.

Description
The Tod is a character from Plague Dogs. I knew he was a good guy all along!

For those of you who don't read... it's the third novel by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down.

The film's story is centered on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake (though Martin Rosen said that this was not an anti-vivisection film, but an adventure), an idea that was only recently coming to public attention during the 1960s and 1970s.

The Tod is a fox that was encountered by Snitter and Rowf. He forges an uneasy friendship with the dogs, teaching them hunting and survival skills in return for a share of the kill. The friendship is stronger with Snitter, who understands both the tod's speech and his mode of thought. For a while the trio survive reasonably comfortably, the dogs killing sheep and fowls under the tod's guidance, but eventually the dogs' indiscreet ways drive him away, which together with the onset of winter marks the start of a much tougher phase of the dogs' fight for survival. A foxhound pack soon chases after them. In the film, The Tod uses every trick he has to distract army dogs for long enough that Rowf and Snitter can escape. He is then cornered by three German Shepherd Dogs, one of which badly injures him, rendering him a limp and weakling. He tries to escape, and jumps over a wall, but five German Shepherds leap over with ease after him.

(kudo's to cut and paste.)

He was a great character, and I must say, I'm pretty dissapointed he was killed

I don't own The Tod, I've just always loved fox's and I thought that he'd be a great character to draw.