Common Breeds
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Continental


The Continental is a displaced European breed that has never truly adapted to movie life in the USA. While he will occasionally tolerate the puppyish exuberance of American movies he is much more at home with the gloomy tedium of foreign films. The Continental's dour existential disposition equips him with the phenomenal endurance to sit through the grimmest Euro-potboilers without a whimper. For the Continental, even Andrei Rublev is a walk in the park.

Incompatibilities: does not interact well with the more playful breeds.

Pit Bull

The Pit Bull is alert and intelligent, but his fractious temperament will cause him to even growl menacingly at films he appears to like. Once he has fully accepted a movie, however, he becomes very territorial and will defend it ferociously. Pit Bull shows extreme aggression towards films he dislikes and does not tolerate challenges to his opinions. Pit Bull must be kept on a short leash because of his unfortunate tendency to snap and lunge at other hounds.

Incompatibilities: unless carefully socialized Pit Bull will exhibit aggressive behavior towards most other breeds. He is especially antagonistic towards Pariah Dog, Bon Bon and Church Shepherd.

Church Shepherd

Church Shepherd is a well-groomed, loyal, obedient, but decidedly unadventurous breed that feels no need to explore beyond the church yard. His modest intelligence, bland tastes and monotonous barking at the moral content in films makes him a very poor movie companion dog. He has a strong instinct to protect the flock and will constantly attempt to separate the innocent young from unwholesome films. Church Shepherd doesn't mix well with most other Movie Hounds, preferring instead to congregate with his own kind. Foreign variants of the breed, such as the Hebrew Shepherd and the Muslim Shepherd, are often very antagonistic to one another.


Incompatibilities: most other hounds are highly annoyed by Church Shepherdęs moral pontifications.