Is Stephen King a cat lover?
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petekrug17 — 18 years ago(June 04, 2007 10:20 PM)
About Stepen King and animals in general:
It is true that the title dog in CUJO becomes the threat. (By the way I'm about to reveal spoilers about the book CUJO, those who haven't read the book yet but are thinking of doing so should stop reading now, and that includes if you've seen the film but haven't read the book.) Cujo does kill three people and in a somewhat inderect way cause the death of an innocent little boy. Still, that is because the dog has become rabid. It is a fact that for some reason dogs, no matter how well-behaved they were before, turn vicious and dangerous after contracting rabies, assuming they've never had any tetnis shots. In the book at the end King stresses that Cujo had always tried to be a good dog and never really wanted to hurt anyone, he was never really evil, he just became a threat as a result of the sickness that turned him into a killer.
As for cats, there is the short film "The Cat From Hell" which can be found in the horror anthology flick TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE: THE MOVIE, where a demonic cat terrorizes and ultimately kills a rich man and the professional he's hired to take the supernatural beastie out. However, the rich guy is said to have cruely experimented on and had killed about a hundred cats or so, and the man he's hired to do away with the unstoppable feline is a hitman, the sort of person who'll kill anyone he's been paid to off and feels no guilt because of it. So the cat in that story could perhaps be seen as a sort of justice enforcer, taking out bad people. -
Alex420 — 18 years ago(June 15, 2007 08:28 AM)
another thign about Cujo
The dog was slightly meant to be a reimaginationing of Frank Dodd in a way
But not necisarrily is cujo Dodd though
Its just meant to be a comparision of what happens to Cujo once it becomes rabid -
sexual_monkey182 — 18 years ago(February 08, 2008 07:12 PM)
Here is a little fun fact about Cujo: I read an interview with Stephen King recently and he claims to have been addicted to, I believe, cocaine at the time he was writing Cujo and doesn't remember writing most of it. How crazy is that? And now that he is clean his ideas keep getting more and more twisted. I love it.
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soultransfixion — 12 years ago(August 18, 2013 12:09 PM)
Sages, I hope you know the cat wasn't actually shocked. If it was that would mean James Woods' wife (in the film) was as well, but you didn't seem to care about that, did you?
Anyway it was a rig built to blow air upward which would cause the cat to jump, there was no actual electricity involved.
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Strazdamonas — 12 years ago(January 11, 2014 03:28 AM)
If you are an animal lover then you might as well ask him that no harm comes to a human in his books because humasn are animals too you know.
Or, or, i got an idea. how about we dont hold cats above humans. how that sounds?
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tychrisbrown — 17 years ago(March 11, 2009 02:09 PM)
Actually Cat From Hell is a superhero of cats. He was picked by cats to be their hitman to off a guy who was butchering cats for profit. So cat from hell is a great example of pro-feline writing that Stephen King does well.
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MnemonicDevice — 17 years ago(November 03, 2008 10:16 AM)
Yes, he is. If you read his writing, you'll find cats cast an extremely favorable light every time. This can be quite frustrating for me, as I'm a dog person myself.
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edmondoster — 11 years ago(July 17, 2014 11:49 PM)
Dogs and Dog lovers DESERVE to be shown the way Stephen King showed and shows them.
If you'd see/witness a dog killing a cat butchering it with unspoken cruelty (and I have seen this) you'd have to admit;
that dogs are CRUEL MURDERERS.
Outside of dogs, I cant think of another animal which KILLS 'just for the kill'
Every single other animal in nature except dogs kills in order to eat it's 'kill'.
Dogs have killed cats just because they 'can', the (dog) maniacs!
THE ONLY REASON DOG IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND I so believe
IS BECAUSE B-O-T-H; MAN AND DOG, ARE CRUEL, EGO-FILLED NARCISSISTIC MURDERERS.
Cat's don't 'bow' down to such murderers, man or dog,
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Burning_Sosobra — 11 years ago(January 07, 2015 11:09 AM)
Wow. You need help, edmondoster. Seek counseling immediately.
You're the type of person that ends up dying alone, with nobody but cats around to witness it. The weird cat lady, or man, that nobody wants to visit because their house smells of cat urine.
Cats and dogs have more similarities than some people care to admit. And yes, cats DO kill for pleasure, not just for food. Cats toy with their rodent victims as well before killing them, at least dogs don't torture before they kill. I like cats and dogs and have owned both during my life, though I do tend to have a closer bond with my dogs. They are both great in different ways.
"Johnny, you're about to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. How do you feel about that?" -
MissMargoChanning — 18 years ago(October 25, 2007 03:57 AM)
Can
t be sure, but I think in the introduction of PPet Semetary," or somewhere, Stephen King wrote that at one time, he and his family lived near a busy highway where pets were always being run over and there was a place where the pets were buried. Either his childrens beloved cat was hit or he began wondering how hed be able to break the news to his children if it happened. Thats the origins of the book anyway. Its been a while since Ive read the book, but I could swear that I read something like that. Anyone else?