In this piece, I’m going to discuss the subject What Kind Of A Dog Was Old Yeller?, and I’m going to do my best to provide as much relevant information as I can. The dog, old yeller , although described in the dialogue as a mongrel, is portrayed by a 170-pound Yellow Mastador (Labrador Retriever/English … Read more
The Newbery Honor-winning novel “Old Yeller,” written by Fred Gipson, came out in 1956. The following year, Disney released a film with Spike in the title role. He was part yellow lab , making him a distant relative of golden retrievers. The dog he portrayed, however, was likely a yellow black mouth cur . Was … Read more
Breed. Old Yeller in the novel is described as being a ” yellow cur “. It has been claimed that the dog was actually modeled after the Yellow or southern black mouth cur or a Blue Lacy, the state dog of Texas. In the Disney movie Yeller was portrayed by a yellow labrador retriever /Mastiff … Read more