Do you buy Miss Gulch's claim that Toto chases her cat, or Dorothy's version that it is a nasty old cat?
shareDoes Mrs. Gulch even have a pussy . . . . . . . cat?
sharetoto was aggressive to the cat in emerald city, the cat was doing nothing.
shareDorothy is full of shit for blaming the cat. Dogs chase cats unprovoked.
shareToto has a tendency to run off whenever he dang well pleases, and he obviously thinks cats are for chasing, as do many dogs. Unfortunately, Dorothy makes the mistake of walking past Ms. Gulch's house every day after school, so that's part of the problem. Doesn't help that she probably has only one road in that entire area to use to get back and forth between school and home without getting lost.
I'd say Ms. Gulch is just a nasty older woman with too much power in the community, and really just doesn't like people in general, let alone little girls with energetic dogs. To have Toto chasing her cat every day probably made her angrier than she normally was. I think she was exaggerating when she said "that dog is a menace to the community!" He's really only a menace to her and her cat, nobody else.
Why does Dorothy bring Toto to school anyway?
shareThat's a very good question, though I get the feeling the little guy waits for her outside the schoolhouse. Seeing as it's a rural era in [roughly] the 1930s, they still had some one-room schoolhouses around America in that time period, so it's very possible she was going to school in one of those.
shareFrankly yes. I have had 3 dogs. The first one my family got when I was very little and lived to be about 12 years old though she died from something tragic that happened. Also she was a Lopsoapso (don't know how to spell it and don't feel like looking it up). She drowned in my parents' pool during the winter time. It was very odd as she rarely ever went to the area of the pool even in the summer. And about 2 years before she died we got a 2nd dog (Australian Shepheard/Airdale Terrier mix) that frankly I didn't want. I felt we should have waited til the dog we had for years died before we got another one. But none of my siblings or my parents listened to me.
In the end none of my siblings except my big brother really took care of her and yet despite that we kept having problems with her for years where she'd run off and go to a neighbor's house and said neighbor would call us and ask us to come get her. I was the only one willing to go do that. None of my other siblings would do it. All of us were annoyed by this neighbor as he refused to even yell at her to get her to go away. It was his own fault for not yelling at her to go away cause that's what you do with dogs you don't want on your property. She got hit by a car. She was about 10 years old at the time.
My 3rd dog was a little black dog that nobody could seem to agree exactly what kind she was. A friend of my family rescued her from someone who had way too many dogs. I took her to my apartment that I lived in til 2010 when I moved out of said apartment due to them having bed bugs. Then I lived with her at my parents for about a year until I had to move into a place that didn't allow pets. There was no other option. None of the affordable places in my town that were near my job at that time allowed pets. So I gave her away to a family that answered my ad in the paper. And jeeze it's all so sad!