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Nature & Animals influenced Lady and the Tramp
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
- Dogs
The evidence
The story began with Joe Grant's drawings of his own English springer spaniel, Lady, and the animators studied real dogs to give the characters dog behaviour, not human behaviour in dog shapes.
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