Homeward bound the incredible journey
Luath and Bodger make it across easily, but Tao prefers not to get wet so he finds a dam to cross. Many miles along, the animals come to a wide river, which they realize they have no choice but to cross. After a while they decide to leave and continue their journey. The dogs don't really take to the stew and Tao is more interested in stalking Jeremy's pet crow, but they don't show that they aren't interested.
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The eccentric old man takes the animals to his hut, where he makes a stew for them to eat. After ten days, while Bodger is resting, he hears the singing of a hermit, named Jeremy. They escape unharmed, although Bodger's dignity is given a serious blow. They cut through an old saw mill, but are shot at after Bodger, rather foolishly, steals an old bone from a cookhouse's rubbish bin. Finally, Luath sees the bear and starts barking furiously this, combined with the yowling, spitting cat, is enough to cause the mother bear to back down and run away.Īfter a whole week of travelling, the animals adapt to travelling after dark so that there is less chance of someone seeing them. However, Tao eventually backs up, frightened. The mother bear thinks Bodger has been hurting her cubs and attacks him the cat witnesses this and in turn attacks her in trying to protect his friend. Soon, two bear cubs happen upon Bodger and investigate him, but then their mother arrives on the scene. Tao goes off into the brush to hunt a partridge while the old dog rests. By the next morning, old Bodger is very tired and is beginning to slow down, so the animals stop for a rest in a clearing and wait for Bodger to regain his strength.
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Now well on their way home, the animals stop at a river to have a drink, but have to hide from a passing truck in case they are recognized. Then she finds half of a note that John had written that appears to imply that he took the animals with him on the trip (however, the other half of it was accidentally knocked into the fireplace by the cat, but Mrs. Oakes arrives at John's house expecting to see the animals, but can't find them. This makes him want to do the same, so he starts off down the road and Tao and Bodger soon follow after him. Soon after John drives away, Luath hears the calls of wild geese overhead, returning home. Oakes and her husband Bert to look after his house and the animals during his absence. After a few days of having the animals in his care John leaves for the opening day of duck hunting season he leaves his housekeeper Mrs. Family friend John Longridge offers to have the animals stay with him, so that is what is arranged. However, their two children Peter and Elizabeth worry about what is to be done with their two dogs, Luath the young Labrador Retriever and Bodger the elderly English Bull Terrier, along with their Siamese cat Tao, while they are away. The Hunter family receive a telegram detailing that the father, James, has been offered a visiting fellowship at Oxford University in England.
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The film is narrated by Rex Allen, who tells the story of three pets, Luath, Bodger, and Tao traveling through Canada to get to their home. The Incredible Journey is a 1963 film based on the novel of the same name.