What kind of dog is chance

His ability to fix Kelsey Grammar with a hard stare then made him a fan favorite. When it became clear that the TV sitcom would have many seasons, Moose was bred to ensure a suitable replacement. His son Enzo ultimately took over the role from him. The two also starred together in the film, "My Dog Skip," with Enzo playing Skip in his younger years and Moose playing the older Skip.

Though he suffered from both dementia and deafness during the last year of his life, Moose ultimately died of natural causes in June He was The original Lassie was not a female as the films would have us believe, but rather a male Rough Collie, named Pal.

In fact, Pal was initially rejected for the title role in the original Lassie film, "Lassie Come Home," due to his gender. He was taken on as a stunt dog instead, while a female Collie was hired for the main part. Pal, however, reportedly impressed the filmmakers so much during production that they ended up releasing the female Collie from her contract and using him instead. After "Lassie Come Home," Pal starred in six other MGM Lassie films from the mids to the early s, as well as the two pilots for the "Lassie" television series filmed in For the original film, Pal earned a salary more than twice as large as his co-star, Elizabeth Taylor.

Pal died in June at the age of 18, after suffering from deafness and blindness during the last year of his life.

Pal's trainer, Rudd Weatherwax, reportedly slipped in and out of depression for years after his beloved dog's passing. After Pal retired, five of his male descendants played the iconic role of Lassie. His three-year-old son, Lassie Jr. Lassie Jr. He never returned to the show, though. His son, Spook, took over the role instead. Take one cat and two dogs who comically converse among themselves in human voices, separate them from their humans, and send them off on a perilous quest through the Sierra Nevadas to find their family, and you have Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.

Released on February 12, , this live-action comedy-adventure celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, so to fete the film and its two fidos, Shadow and Chance, and their feline friend, Sassy, here are some fascinating facts about this beloved Disney animal adventure.

The author based her novel about the unstoppable animal trio on her own pets. Her three animals were her constant companions in England during World War II, and the pets were themselves inseparable.

It was this remarkable animal-kingdom kinship that inspired the author to write The Incredible Journey. Less than a year after its publication in , the book became an international bestseller. The film itself is a remake of the film The Incredible Journey , which in itself is an adaptation of the novel of the same name.

What kind of dog is chance from Homeward Bound? In the film, Chance is portrayed by an American Bulldog named Rattler. The name and breed differ from the film it was based on as well as the novel where the character was named Luath, and its breed being a Labrador Retriever.

Instantly recognizable, Labrador Retrievers are the most popular dog breed in the US. Originating from England, Labrador Retrievers are believed to come from cross-breeding St. When they reach the airport, Chance struggles as Bob tries to get him into his carrier to be taken to be loaded onto the plane, but as the carriers containing him, Shadow, and Sassy are taken to the tarmac, when Bob asks Jamie if he is going to say goodbye to Chance, Jamie, still upset with him for disrupting the game, simply tells Chance "see you later" in a sarcastic tone, making Chance feel all the more worried that Jamie hates him for disobeying his orders.

When he sees the airport workers in their hazmat suits, he panics, thinking the airport is a dog pound and workers are the dog pound catchers and Jamie is sending him back there because of how bad he's been as punishment.

As Chance freaks, he manages to wiggle his carrier, ignoring Shadow's words saying their humans wouldn't do that to all of them and Sassy's pleas to stop, to where it falls off the baggage cart and is split open between two baggage trolleys heading in opposite directions, much to Shadow's horror. Freed, he heads back to the terminal to find Jamie and apologize to him, but by then, the Seavers are already on their flight as it is being moved away from the gate to taxi to the runway for takeoff.

Joined by Shadow and Sassy after Sassy got them out of their own carriers, they follow Chance back through the terminal and the baggage area to the tarmac. Unfortunately, they are unsure of which plane carries the Seavers, and Chance tells Shadow to hurry as he spots the airport security forces mobilizing to retrieve them and get them on their flight before it takes off.

When Shadow spots the plane he can tell the Seavers are on, he gets the pets dashing toward the runway as the security vehicles are soon in pursuit. When they reach the runway the plane is heading down as it accelerates to takeoff speed, they wait in the hope that the pilots see them and stop, but just as the plane is about to run them over, it reaches takeoff speed and lifts off, leaving the pets behind as the Seavers head to Canada without them. Having almost forgotten about the airport security vehicles chasing them, as the vehicles screech onto the now clear runway, the pets head for the airport's security fence on the perimeter to escape, unaware the vehicles were only trying to recover them to get them on the next flight to Canada to reunite them with the Seavers.

As Shadow and Chance dig their way under the fence in order to escape, Sassy climbs up it and squeezes through the gap between the top of the chain link and barbed wire above it while Shadow is already safely under and through as the security team arrives to recover them, while Chance had gotten his collar snagged on the bottom of the fence, but with Shadow and Sassy's encouragement, Chance gets his collar free and escapes just in time as the security team watches in disbelief at having failed to recover them as they take off into the distance, with Chance taunting them with "give my regards to the bad place, suckers!

Now with the Seavers on their way to Canada, Sassy reprimands Chance for his paranoia getting them lost again, and Shadow realizes they have to find their way home once more. However, remembering what happened when they did it the first time with heading home through the Sierra Nevada, Chance doesn't want to go through that again but soon is forced to join Shadow and Sassy anyway. Meanwhile, when word of what happened reaches the Seavers in Canada at the airport there, Jamie becomes horrified, thinking this is all his fault due to his earlier anger towards Chance, and Peter and Hope are just as terrified, knowing full well they can't enjoy their camping trip with their pets lost in San Francisco.

After some pleading, they convince Bob into having them all return home to find their pets. Back in San Francisco, after Chance, Shadow, and Sassy make their way through Chinatown and Chance prevents Sassy from getting food from a young boy named Tucker who is caring for his own kitten named Tiger when he scares Tucker back into his house, the pets soon run afoul of Ashcan and Pete. When Riley shows up with his gang, Chance takes off on decoy duty, unaware that Riley and his crew had come to chase off Ashcan and Pete, not back them up.

When she does, it doesn't take long for a relationship to start to blossom between Chance and Delilah. Delilah also explains to Chance how Riley came to form his gang and develop a fear and hatred of humans after being left out in the rain-soaked street on Christmas night when he was a puppy after the child he had been given to as a Christmas present by his parents had rejected him.

Delilah also admits she was born a stray and never had a home herself. While they are together, they spend some time exploring San Francisco, checking out the sea lions down at the harbor, among other things, before retiring to Riley's hideout in the dockyard. When Riley and his crew return later with Shadow and Sassy after witnessing them save Tucker and Tiger from their house after it caught fire thanks to the discarded cigar from Jack, one of the goons that drive the "Blood Red Van", smoldering and igniting some dry grass next to the house, Shadow and Sassy are furious with Chance, and Riley with Delilah.

When Bando nearly gets into a fight with Chance over Delilah being his girlfriend, Riley lays down the law with saying Chance is a pet, a dog with a human owner, and fed up, Delilah takes Chance with her outside to cool off.

As Chance and Delilah make plans for going out and about in San Francisco again the next day, things take a turn for the worse. As Sledge and another of Riley's gang are watching Chance as he enjoys chewing on an old tire and a bag of discarded garbage while Delilah watches, they soon spot the "Blood Red Van" entering the area and retreat to cover inside the warehouse were Riley set up shop. However, Chance is too busy with his loot to notice until Jack and Ralph are closing in to capture him as their latest payoff with sending Chance to the lab to be experimented on.

As they were arriving, Chance also picked up a scent of cheeseburger thinking it was from the trash, though it actually was coming from Jack and Ralph While Jack lures Chance with a cheeseburger, Ralph is able to snare him.

Upon seeing Chance being captured, Riley gives the order to move out to try and save him. They are too late initially when the "Blood Red Van" drives off, but Riley leads the gang through a shortcut in the warehouses to intercept Jack and Ralph before they can leave the dockyard.

On Sassy's suggestion, they form a roadblock to prevent the van from leaving. Jack orders Ralph to run them over, despite Ralph arguing that they would be worth more captured alive, but when Jack becomes insistent with turning them into roadkill, Ralph refuses, resulting in the two of them struggling for control of the van as it moves closer to the dogs.

When it gets too close, Riley orders them to scatter, but Delilah holds her ground until she's nearly hit by it. Faking her paw being injured, she enrages Bando enough to where he leaps into the van to attack Jack and Ralph directly, forcing them out to escape his wrath and be surrounded by Riley's gang and Shadow, while Sassy goes to free Chance and the other dogs that had been captured by Jack and Ralph. After forcing Chance to admit that her old saying of "cats rule and dogs drool" is the truth in the matter at the moment, Sassy frees Chance and the other dogs, who immediately go after Jack and Ralph, who had been kept restrained by Riley and Sledge, while Bando sees to the end of the "Blood Red Van".

When it is all over, when Bando asks Delilah about her paw, Chance, oblivious to the ruse, asks what is going on, before Bando tells him off for nearly getting all of them killed because of his actions. Upon Delilah admitting that Riley is right and Chance and she can't be together, heartbroken, Chance leaves.

When Shadow tries to stop him, making everyone else notice, but Chance angrily tells him off to leave him alone, clearly furious with him and everyone else for their actions by trying to keep him and Delilah apart and what they said to him. He berates Shadow and the others, saying that he doesn't need him, or Sassy, or Delilah, or anyone else and continues storming off, leaving Delilah feeling guilty and ashamed for what she had done and leaving everyone else to watch helplessly as he vanished out of site.

Riley had his gang go out looking for him, but they were unsuccessful.