i saw this movie about fifteen year ago and and i be shock at how horrible it be then . look back and i wonder why such a frightening movie be release to kid . a summary be a follow represent [ warning and total spoiler ] scruffy be a single birth to a mother dog . their owner have to move from their house because it condemn and they can not take the dog and so they leave them in the yard for a neighbor to pick up . the mother dog be confuse and hide in the house and which the demolition team soon set ablaze . she climb the chimney to safety and pup in tow . they be adopt by a firefighter and but soon scruffy mom get wanderlust and the two set off again . in a scene reminiscent of bambi and scruffy mother get gun down . now the poor lose dog be orphan and lose and and do i mention that it winter . while hide in a park and she meet a hobo who take her in and and the two live blissfully under a bridge . he teach scruffy how to perform trick and and they manage to make a living off the change people throw at the dog walk on her hind leg . ( but how much money do a homeless guy need . ) one night and the hobo get mug and and be so distraught by the attack that he spill the tonic that he need to calm himself down . he collapse and an ambulance come and he die . meanwhile and scruffy manages to fall into the river and and be rescue by a junkyard dog right before she drown . she live with them then and one be a drunken great dane and one be a collie who think an old boot be her dead puppy . they get into tangle and fight with other junkyard dog and then eventually wind up in the pound . just before scruffy and this other dog be about to be euthanized they be adopt by this family and and i think scruffy win a beauty pageant and she also have a big pile of puppy . while it do end ok ( i guess and even though it sort of doggie incest ) and i personally be disgust by the unhappy nature of this movie . i will never share it with my child .