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[WC]

Bond has had so many gadgets from Q branch in the past. In a future Bond adventure, it would be nice to see him given an especially well-trained dog to assist him. It could had a special transceiver to respond to commands. Although it would be a MI6 dog, perhaps a golden retriever would be nice, rather than some typical police dog. It could accompany him on the adventure (ie, become a Bond-Dog) and perhaps even save his life at one point. Then he could keep it as his own personal pet since he hasn't had many personal friends since Tracy's death.

It wouldn't have to appear in every future film, as the novelty would soon wear off, but it could reappear every now and again in cameo roles (like other MI6 staff) in the future, after playing a major role at least once in a Bond movie.

What do others think?

[BondChick4ever8]

LOL thats a good idea a golden retriever or a weimaraner.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Don't think so. I sort of like the idea of Bond using it maybe once or twice on a rescue mission or something, but keeping it as a pet is a no-no. Bond is not one who would get a pet. Most of the time, he's usually out on a mission and not at home, which means he couldn't properly care for a dog, although maybe May could. And I absolutely despise the idea of the Bond films becoming those Belushi K-9 films, or whatever they're called. I love dogs, and have a black Labrador cross-breed of some sort myself, and she's a loyal companion to the family, but Bond and a pet dog is a big no for me, sorry. Just doesn't belong.

[Loomis]

Agreed. The last thing the Bond series needs is 007 buddying up with a dog, which in this day and age would probably have to be some sort of CGI eyesore. Even at the height of Roger Moore comic lunacy, I don't believe that anyone would have thought this a viable idea. Bond is not Tintin, and, as Double-Oh-Zero, says, the echoes of K9, TURNER AND HOOCH and various other cop-and-canine movies would not be welcome.

BTW, like Double-Oh-Zero, I'm English and a massive dog lover myself.

[Bryce (003)]

I also agree. I love dogs, but were I a secret agent and travelling or recovering from various assignments, I wouldn't have time for one. Pets are a commitment and dogs especially.

The only secret agent with a dog was Maxwell Smart. Agent Fang saved he and 99 quite a few times, but that's CONTROL...not MI6.

I had one idea for a scene where Bond first meets the "Bond girl" at her home. He takes a seat and out of nowhere, a white persian hops up in his lap and Bond is visbly shaken. The girl comes in and says "I'm sorry Mr. Bond. Do you not care for cats?"

BOND - "Just this particular breed"

or something like that...

but yes, if I start seeing posters for a Bond film with Pierce and a dog as the center piece.....I'll be dictating my letter of resignation to Moneypenny before heading over to the American Bar at the Savoy.

I have a feeling I wouldn't be alone. First rounds on me, but someone else has to pay for the taxi.

[scaramanga]

When I first saw the thread title I nearly said something about Denise Richards. Anyway, I think that giving Bond a dog either as a partner or as a pet is a definite no-no. However, if he did, what about the St. Bernard towards the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service? Ahhhh...

[Hardyboy]

Let's not forget how cutesy-wootsy that "snooper" robot was in A View to a Kill. . .I could imagine a dog being used to similar effect, watching Bond and the Bond girl get it on, frustrating Q, etc. Ah, well, it probably wouldn't be as annoying as a Bond film with a precocious eight-year-old boy as Bond's sidekick.

[ShockTroop22]

Let me voice my opinion in one simple word; NEVER!

[White Tuxedo]

I dunno, maybe you can end every movie like that scene in OHMSS.

[WarBird]

I can see Bond getting a dog and having it stay at Mi6. But what happens when on a mission the dog gets shot or Bond gets so attached to the dog that some terrrorist group holds the dog for ransome. Then they make a movie about Bond saving a dog instead of the world. It sounded like a cool idea to me at first, but now I'm rapidly turning away from the idea.

[Xenobia]

I've thought about this...and mostly because James would never be home to "bond" with it, (sorry, I had to make that pun), it would be a bad idea.

But I also think it would be cute for someone like his particular girlfriend to have one, or to have a cat or dog hanging around as the office pet at the Q branch.

-- Xenobia

[Blofeld's Cat]

In Thunderball when Moneypenny told Bond that he was needed in the meeting room he made the flipant comment that "someone must have lost a dog." That tells me that Bond is not particularly interested in them.

While on the subject of K9s, Bond responded to M's question on how much he new about diamonds in Diamonds Are Forever with "they [diamonds] replaced the dog as a girls best friend." I've always known the expression as going: "dogs are a man's best friend," and never herad that they used to be a girl's best friend.

[Joyce Carrington]

NO WAY!! Bond would never have a dog!

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Originally posted by Blofeld's Cat
While on the subject of K9s, Bond responded to M's question on how much he new about diamonds in Diamonds Are Forever with "they [diamonds] replaced the dog as a girls best friend." I've always known the expression as going: "dogs are a man's best friend," and never herad that they used to be a girl's best friend.

Bond was making a joke - in light of the saying "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" - that dogs were once a girl's best friend, like they are man's best friend, but were taken over by diamonds.

[WC]

I beg to differ, but on the cover of Time Out Magazine, there is a picture of Pierce Brosnan standing with not one, but TWO dogs on a lead. The caption, in keeping with the "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" phrase says: "Gentlemen prefer Bond." The picture certainly doesn't look like it's some buddy movie but quite stylish and upper class actually.

So perhaps Brossers might even campaign to have some dogs in the film one day. If it were done properly, it doesn't have to be like K-9 or Turner & Hooch. As I said, it could be a dog belonging to MI6 - Q Branch even, but who is eventually given to Bond to keep, but is looked after by Q or Moneypenny when he is off on a mission. At least that way we might get to see his apartment more often in the films.

[0007]

If he had a dog he wouldn't be Bond. Besides, what if he's in a really claustrophobic location, or had to do a stunt that dogs can't do? Think about it. Taking a dog on an infiltration mission!:eek:

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Welschcat what month edition of Time Out: London was that?

[WC]

MBE - I think it was October or September, although I could be wrong. I just remember passing by a shop in Chancery Lane in London some time back in the last few weeks where there was a big Time Out poster with Brosnan and 2 dogs on the front with the headline: Gentlemen Prefer Bond. It might not have been an actual TO magazine but just a poster for it, although I assume that if it had that advertisement for TO, the magazine must've had something to do with it. I should've stopped to check it out more closely at the time, but was in a rush for a dinner at Lincoln's Inn.

[zencat]

James Bond and a dog? Ian Fleming is turning over in his grave...

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Thanks Welschcat, either way I gather it's long gone by now. Darn.

[Honey Rider]

Well maybe it would work for a movie or two...as long as it isn't a
fat Scotish Terrier...adorable, but not a rase who completes the
connection between MI6 and animals =)

[Jim]

Well, he had Countess Lisl

But no, I jest (for fear of instant reprisal and "the forces out there in the dark")

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