Because He Is The Only Hunting Dog (Golden Retriever). All The Others Are Guard Dog Breeds

His Pitch Was This: "What If A Gun Had A Soul And Didn't Want To Be A Gun?"

From There On Songs Were Avoided Because The Tone Was Meant To Be Darker

So They Decided To Follow Her Around With A Microphone And Cut Her Lines Together Using The Random Things/Noises She Say Whilst Playing

So Him Being The One Who Constantly Comes Up With Escape Plans Makes Sense

Making Him The First Queer Character In A Children’s Animated Movie

As The Film Is Set In 1885, The Year The Statue Was Completed, It Still Has Its Bright Copper Colouring. It Was Only After 1900 That The Statue Turned Green Due To Oxidisation

She’s Also One Of The First Mother Characters In A Disney Film Not To Be Killed Off Or Villainized

The Pixar Team Mined Through More Than Two Decades Of Rickles’ Voice Sessions, Outtakes For Other Films, Theme Parks, Toys,... etc. To Piece Together The Performance

The Art Director Also Took A Trip To A Magnolia Plantation To Learn How To Properly Render Shrek’s Swamp. He Was Chased By An Alligator

 Arctic Shrews Eat Three Times Their Own Body Weight And Even Eat Other Shrews

And He Added My Name As A Joke, And It Stuck. The Second Image Is His Other Work, He Lost The Og Piece With Lukie

Pixar Placed A "Quality Assurance Guarantee" At The End Of Their Next Movie Ratatouille (2007) To Remind The Academy They Animate Every Single Frame Of Their Movies Manually

In Real Life, This Little Bug Is An Aphid (Also Known As Aphids) And They Live In Harmony With The Ants, But Not As Pets, But As "Livestock"

The Taste Triggering The Memory Of Anointing Simba With The Same Fruit As A Lion Cub At The Beginning Of The Film