Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety (1987)

Name: Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety
Genre: Animation
Released: 1987-02-01

10m

Running Time

February 1, 1987
Release Date

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Plot.

This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompous, but endearing dog called Wally. A "professional" in home safety, Wally is assigned to a house with an infant whose parents have little safety consciousness. Accidents and near-accidents succeed each other with lightning speed, constantly putting Wally to the test.

Where to Watch.

Free

Currently Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: NFB

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Cast & Crew.

Paul Brown

Wally (voice)

Harvey Atkin

(voice)

Luba Goy

(voice)

Henry Beckman

(voice)

Les Drew

Director / Writer / Animation

Eldon Rathburn

Music

William Pettigrew

Producer

Douglas Macdonald

Executive Producer

Media.

Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety

Details.

Release Date
February 1, 1987

Status
Released

Running Time
10m

Genres
Animation

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Les Drew for the National Film Board of Canada and released in 1986. The film's central character is Wally (Paul Brown), a dog who is frantically trying to protect his new family from their own careless actions as they prepare for a dinner party.

The film's voice cast also includes Luba Goy as Honey, Harvey Atkin as Bernard and Henry Beckman as The Boss.

It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987.

Drew released a sequel film, Every Dog's Guide to the Playground, in 1991. Both films were broadcast in the United States on Cartoon Network's O Canada anthology series of NFB animated shorts, and were packaged together in 1996 for home video release as The Blue Dog Safety Video.