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Nature & Animals influenced The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
- Dogs
The evidence
Dodie Smith owned Dalmatians, the first of them named Pongo, and a friend's remark that they would make a fine fur coat gave her Cruella de Vil.
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