Wow, I never noticed this but it’s absolutely true that 90s / 2000s kids all grew up with an entire genre of cute animal media that emotionally traumatized us. Don’t believe me? Check out this list of examples including Watership Down, The Land Before Time, The Animals of Farthing Wood, Into the Wild, The Capture, Redwall, The Secret of NIMH, and more. This is practically how all of us learned about war, death, betrayal, and oppression:
Got any more traumatizing cute animal books or movies to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.
Except Watership Down, The Animals of Farthing Wood, and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which is what The Secret of NIMH is based on, were all written in the early 70’s! 🙂
All Dogs go to Heaven
My 8 year old just started reading the warriors and guardians of gahool series, she cant put them down lol
yall dont forget all the disney movies like
oliver
(i forgot what its called but its like sherlock holmes but with mice)
the rescuers
the rescuers down under
aristocats
The Deptford Mice should be in this list. OMG they were depressing.