Why didn't you bite Miss Gulch harder?
-- from the internet
Hey there! Okay, to straighten things out a tad: Miss Gulch was in the movie, The Wizard of Oz, not in the original story about my life, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. It's important to be clear about things from the get go.
As such, I wasn't the one in The Wizard Of Oz movie. That would be Terry, the cairn terrier, who does a FANTASTIC job conveying my mixed emotions at arriving in Oz (I hate it here!/must protect Dorothy!/what IS that thing coming to kill us?!)
But if I HAD to take a guess at why Terry playing me and the 18 WRITERS (seriously, people, just look here ) didn't have Toto bite Miss Gulch harder is, well, she's a tough old bird. And dogs are not cannibals. No need to chomp through the skin. One warning bite is enough to get the broad to back off. Besides, the character of me in Wizard Of Oz had a GREAT reason to bite Miss Gulch:
DOROTHY Oh, but Aunt Em, Miss Gulch hit Toto right
over the back with a rake just because she
says he gets in her garden and chases her
nasty old cat every day.
YOU DON'T HIT A DOG WITH A RAKE! DON'T DO IT! IT'S MEAN, ROTTEN AND WRONG! Miss Gulch deserved to be bit! A bunch! Oooooh, ooooooh, now I'm just madder than mad. I'm gonna have to go take a dip in the lake to cool off.
So, lesson we've learned today - Miss Gulch is tough. Terry is Cairn Terrier is playing a version of me, but is NOT me. 18 writers on the MGM version of Wizard Of Oz is excessive. And above all else, don't hit your dog with a rake.
Thanks for the question!
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