Plague Dogs is a cartoon animated movie meant to highlight the cruelty of animal testing and experimentation. I think that this movie emphasized that there is a place for emotions in moral decision making. This movie definitely appealed to my emotions.
In the opening scene, a dog is seen drowning in a pool with no way to escape. The dog struggles to stay above the water until finally, too exhausted to swim, passes out and falls beneath the surface. The next thing you see is a hook being sent into the water to drag the dog out by its collar. It is revived by a machine. Right away the movie depicts the cruelty and inhuman ways of animal experimentation. Dogs are also shown in cages with barely any food. One of the most disturbing scenes in the film for me was when the experimenters scoop up a dead dog and just throw it into the incinerator like it’s a piece of garbage.
The two main dogs in the film do end up escaping and throughout the movie are transformed from “good dogs” to animals that are not afraid to kill to survive. I think that the title was fitting for this movie because it does seem as though bad luck follows the dogs wherever they go. One of the dogs accidentally slips on the trigger and kills a hunter. The community sees them as dangerous and a disturbance that must be done away with instead of the “good dogs” that they actually are.
I think that this movie did an excellent job of appealing to the emotions of the viewer and really depicted the realistic cruelty of animal experimentation. Yes, I believe that animal experimentation does have benefits, especially for medicine, but I believe that we need to go about it in a much more humane way.
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