TRIBUTE TO:

 LASSIE COME HOME

LASSIE, THE MOST FAMOUS DOG ON THIS EARTH WAS ACTUALLY A MALE DOG CALLED PAL...HE WAS CHOSEN TO PORTRAY LASSIE IN THE FILM CALLED: LASSIE COME HOME...I FIRST SAW THE FILM IN 1944; IT STARRED RODDY MCDOWALL,  ELIZABETH TAYLOR, DONALD CRISP, NIGEL BRUCE, AND ELSA LANCHESTER 

RODDY MEETING LASSIE AFTER SCHOOL,...WATCHING THE SCHOOL CLOCK IN ANTICIPATION OF MEETING UP WITH HIS LASSIE...ON RIGHT: A PUBLICITY PHOTO OF RODDY AND LASSIE

ELIZABETH TAYLOR AS PRISCILLA...IT WAS SHE WHO LET LASSIE ESCAPE FROM HER GRANDFATHER'S KENNELS IN SCOTLAND

PRISCILLA GIVES HER GRANDFATHER A FLOWER FOR HIS LAPEL

LASSIE IS FINALLY HOME TO STAY; NEVER BE PARTED FROM JOE EVER AGAIN

THE ABOVE IS THE TRAILER THAT WAS SHOWN IN THE THEATRE IN MY HOMETOWN FOR A WHOLE WEEK...EVERYONE IN THE TOWN WAS MORE THAN ANXIOUS TO SEE THE MOVIE...THEN ON THE FRIDAY IT WAS SHOWN EVERYONE IN SCHOOL WAS LET OUT 15 MINUTES EARLY...IT WAS ALL VERY EXCITING.

LASSIE COME HOME IS A STORY ABOUT A DOG'S GREAT LOVE FOR A YOUNG YORKSHIRE LAD WHO IS HIS REASON FOR LIVING...IT'S AN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, THE CAN ONLY BE GIVEN BY AN ANIMAL OR A PARENT.

THE YEAR WAS 1944, I WAS 11 YEARS OLD AND THE FILM HAD AN INCREDIBLE IMPACT ON MY LIFE...I KNEW, AFTER SEEING IT, THAT I WOULD ONE DAY BE INVOLVED WITH ANIMAL WELFARE...MY DEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER ONCE TOLD ME THAT EVERY LIVING CREATURE HAS A REASON FOR BEING AND THAT WE MUST RESPECT THAT REASONING...IT IS NOW 2010 AND I AM 77 YEARS YOUNG AND MY ORGANIZATION IS CALLED: THE CANADIAN VOICE FOR ANIMALS FOUNDATION...WITH BRANCHES IN ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY, USA, NORWAY AND PERU...OUR GOAL IS TO, ONE DAY, HAVE LEGISLATION IN ALL COUNTRIES THAT GIVES ALL ANIMALS LEGAL RIGHTS.