Talk:Pete the Pup
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Thank you Wikipedia for adding Pete to your online encyclopedia! I know Petey would thank you too :P I'm trying to get Pete the Pup the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame he most surely deserves! I sometimes wonder how the Our Gang Comedies would be remembered without this much loved dog!?
Thanks to whoever updated and Wikified my original submission, I didn't think it was as easy BUT you found a friend in Pete :)
Thanks!! joey
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I removed this...
- He was also seen in a 1920's cartoon, where he was a live character in Briar Studio's Pete the Pup according to some sources.
...because the grammar is unintelligble, and I can't make any sense of it to copyedit it. Rewrite? --b. Touch 07:18, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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- Thanks! --b. Touch 13:44, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Poisoned?
I wanted to clear up "he died after being poisoned by a piece of meat tainted with broken glass. " because glass isn't a poison. But just noting "he ate a piece of meat tainted..." seems to imply that he just happened to eat the meat. But it still seems awkward to say he was "poisoned" by broken glass.
- The same idea occurred to me; I think this fixes it. Ewulp 02:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I was just stating what Our Gang member Jean Darling had told me. -- spankees 6 September 2007
[edit] Tough nut to crack
The Pete page reference which I added some months ago contradicts itself on nearly every major point. In this page, it is asserted that the original Pete's food was intentionally tampered with, but it also asserts that he died of natural causes. It also asserts that Pete's eye circle was natural, as well as asserting that it wasn't natural. Not helpful is the fact that the ring appears in various photos on his left and right eyes, though negative-reversing was pretty common in cinema at that time.
In a word, there's not much truly verifiable info on this page.--Son of Somebody 23:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
There were a number of dogs to play Pete the Pup, the original was Pal The Wonder Dog who supposedly had a natural circle around his eye according to many sources. The other most poplular dog called Lucenay's Peter had the circle added on. Pal died from the glass tainted meat and Lunenay's Pete died naturally. About the circle appearing on different eyes it was because other dogs were used also, some for close-up shots and others for distant shots. The original dogs were all owned and trained by Harry Lucenay's, after he was fired another (bulldog?) was brought in. I got my information from several sources including the Leonard Maltin Our Gang/Little Rascals book and from Our Gang member Jean Darling.--spankees 6 September 2007
[edit] Bulldogs
The article says, "Roach used a number of unrelated bulldogs to portray Pete in Our Gang until 1938." Were bulldogs really used to play Pete? --Jagz 22:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
