Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (stylised as Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale) is a 1986 New Zealand animated musical comedy film based on cartoonist Murray Ball's comic strip Footrot Flats about a New Zealand farmer and his border collie sheepdog. Written by Ball and Tom Scott, directed by Ball, and produced by John Barnett and Pat Cox, with music by Dave Dobbyn, the voice cast includes leading New Zealand actors John Clarke, Peter Rowley, Rawiri Paratene, Fiona Samuel, and Billy T. James.

New Zealand's first feature-length animated film, it was released in November 1986 in New Zealand by Kerridge-Odeon, and opened in Australia on 9 April 1987. The film grossed $2.5 million at the New Zealand box office (making it one of the most successful local films of the 1980s).

In Australia, it grossed $4.3 million.