animals...?

[V]

I was always curious... Were there any animals in the Monster World? i did catch some birds, but I'm stil curious...

[mentalguru]

There was a sushi restaurant- and the cereal Boo was eating had puffer fish (o_0- I'm guessing it was prepared properly).

There was not much evidence of dogs/cats but since Sulley kind of treated BOO like a pet animal- and kind of knew to put pare down etc etc. it's possible they have some pets too. Not sure WHAT pets exactly though.

Also Mike is scared of dogs (trailer evidence and also another source states this phobia)- but whether that's only because of stories he's heard of the human worlds or some other reason we can't be 100% sure of.

[pitbulllady]

Here's some other evidence of "lower animals" in the Monster World: one of Mike's grand plans for ridding himself of "IT"(Boo)including "using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel underneath the city, then take it outside the city and release it into the wild". The concept of "the wild" indicates that there are places where there are wild(vs. tame or domesticated)animals and few monsters. Indeed, there was a children's book which was published-I believe it was called "Boo On the Loose", which actually was based on a deleted scene in which Mike and Sulley DO drive Boo out to a sort of nearby state park or wilderness area with plans to abandon her there, although THEY don't see it as "abandonment" so much as "setting it free", in the same vein as one would release a wild fox or raccoon that's been live-trapped in someone's suburban living room. While scouting a suitable place to "release" IT, Mike and Sulley leave Boo behind in the car, which is still running, and Boo locks them out while trying to catch a butterfly that is outside the car. They try all sorts of things to get her to unlock the doors, but meanwhile the car is still running and using up Scream, and the nearest Scream station is many, many miles down the road. In the end, Sulley does something, like finds some flowers or some such, which pursuades Boo to unlock the door, and makes Sulley reconsider whether or not she is just an "lower animal" as monsters have always been taught, or a sentient being with a sense of humor and aesthetics, so he takes her back to their apartment. That scene was deleted because the Pixar folks thought it would make Mike and Sulley, and MIKE especially, seem too harsh and "cold" when it came to their treatment of Boo and make it too difficult for the audience to believe their change of hearts later.

In the actual movie, Mike specifically says, "Oh, great, just what I've always wanted...a pet that can KILL me!" This, along with Sulley's treating Boo like a stray puppy he'd taken in, shows that the monsters do have the concept of pets, so they must have non-sapient animals in their world just like we do in ours. Another bit of evidence for such is Sulley actually calling Mike's stuffed toy, "Little Mikey", a "bear". They obviously have bears then, in the Monster World, but if they look anything like "Little Mikey", they obviously are very different from the bears WE are familiar with!

pitbulllady

[V]

Thank you both SO VERY much! ;D I'll keep that in mind!

[RandallBoggs]

Animals....?
While it is debatable if they have human-esque animals (as it can be, considering if they are naturally there, or if they were secretly "imported" from the human world) in varied mass, they do have their own strange and exotic "pets". I recall a sort of dog thing from the Art of Monsters Inc. book.

*chuckles* You know....ABOUT that scene with Wazowski's "plans". Doesn't anybody find it rather odd-hilarious that after he discusses that spoon plan that Sullivan simply goes on stating the stupidness of how it sounds RATHER than going into a mini-rant about how they can't do that to a human kid (on Sullivan's moral grounds really)? Heh heh.

[pitbulllady]

Apr 7, 2010 18:39:45 GMT -5 RandallBoggs said:

Animals....?
While it is debatable if they have human-esque animals (as it can be, considering if they are naturally there, or if they were secretly "imported" from the human world) in varied mass, they do have their own strange and exotic "pets". I recall a sort of dog thing from the Art of Monsters Inc. book.

*chuckles* You know....ABOUT that scene with Wazowski's "plans". Doesn't anybody find it rather odd-hilarious that after he discusses that spoon plan that Sullivan simply goes on stating the stupidness of how it sounds RATHER than going into a mini-rant about how they can't do that to a human kid (on Sullivan's moral grounds really)? Heh heh.

What do you mean by "human-esque animals"? Monkeys? Apes? Or just the same kinds of animals we have here in our world? Obviously, as I pointed out, there ARE pets of some sort in the Monster World, otherwise Mike would not be familiar with the word or the concept, and the monsters also obviously have wild animals in their world, otherwise they'd have no concept of "the wild" or a need for state or national parks. Either the practice of keeping pets is not as common as it is in most parts of the Human World(and there ARE many places where keeping animals for companionship/hobbies/for purposes other than consumption are considered odd in OUR world, too), or they have very strict laws in Monstropolis against letting domesticated animals run at large. As for what those animals might look like, compared to the animals we are familiar with, is anyone's guess. There is, of course, the possibility of "smuggling" animals from the Human World, too, a sort of black market for them just as there is in many places here in OUR world for smuggled animals from various parts of the globe. It's pretty much a guarantee that if you ban something, SOMEBODY is going to challenge that and profit from a black market on it. Australia has banned the export of their native animals and plants since the early '70s, but that sure doesn't stop Bearded Dragons, Carpet Pythons and Blue-Tongues Skinks from being very popular pets in the US, and you can bet that the ancestors of these much-loved critters for the most part didn't get here legally!

pitbulllady

[RandallBoggs]

The third option.

[pitbulllady]

I'd love to see a pic of the "dog" from the "Art Of..." book, since that's one book I never got the chance to see...too darn expensive! Any chance of posting it?

pitbulllady

[RandallBoggs]

Hmm...I think so. Gonna have to find where I put it...