a headcanon on why john picked that dog out of all the other ones there , pls n thank u
there’s actually a very simple reason: that dog was set to be put down. it’s a blink and you miss it sort of thing but you can actually see that written on the dog’s charts outside the cage. but, like i said, it is blink and you miss it and if you’re not looking for it you probably won’t notice it.
i didn’t actually notice it until after i read the screenplay for the movie which i’m sure a lot of people haven’t. but it is something that’s stated in the screenplay and, while the screenplay is different from the final shooting script and the final movie, i do like that they left that in:
A beat... and John walks to the cage, removing the clipboardfrom its side, reading it: we can see that the dog isscheduled to be put down tomorrow.
so it’s really not much of a headcanon i suppose??but i guess i can say that john just got beaten down like nonstop for about two days, literally and figuratively, and he lost daisy, so when he sees this other dog who’s scheduled to be put down, john’s heart does kind of just go out to him. i don’t think john, after losing daisy, had the thought of “well i’ll definitely get another dog”. he might have eventually?? in a more normal way, but he kind of instantly knew he had to take that pitbull. he’d give the dog a second chance and the dog would give him a second chance.