I will admit it. The nostalgia got to us and we threw our money at Disney+. Hubs and I were excited to show our kids the cartoons and movies that we grew up with. It never dawned on me that I would be faced with defending my love of hunting and trapping to those kids as we watched the movies. The Fox and the Hound Are those the traps you use? Why would Copper hunt Tod if that’s his friend? Amos Slade is the antagonist. An “evil” trapper who wants to hurt poor, cute Tod the fox. He raises hounds, sets jaw-toothed traps (the illegal kind) and continues to threaten the Widow Tweed about Tod getting into his chickens and needing to return to the wild. The story is more about the conflict around the friendship between the dog and fox but the underlying issue is about hunting and trapping. Beauty and the Beast Another antagonist, Gaston is described as an "arrogant hunter" who sings about how no one can shoot like him and that he uses antlers in his decoratin
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