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If You’re Worried About Vaccinating Your Dog, Please Reread ‘Old Yeller’
There is no sadder story than Old Yeller. That’s true of both the 1956 novel, written by Fred Gipson—a Hill Country native who was born in 1908 on a farm in an unincorporated part of the area about a hundred miles northwest of San Antonio—and of the Disney film adaptation released a year after the book, which has been a cultural touchstone for many baby boomers since their childhoods.Today, only 24 percent of dog owners are baby boomers; millennials, on the other hand, make up 33 percent, the largest share among any generation—and they probably didn’t have Old Yeller on their fourth grade syllabus. This isn’t just a shame for a piece of enduring fiction—as we’ve learned in a few ways in recent years, it…The post If You’re Worried About Vaccinating Your Dog, Please Reread ‘Old Yeller’ appeared first on Texas Monthly.