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--->'''The Dog:''' Oh no! A weka snatched a baby duckling! Wal's not here. What would he do? "'''''YA &#^%@& WEKA!!!"'''"

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--->'''The Dog:''' Oh no! A weka snatched a baby duckling! Wal's not here. What would he do? "'''''YA "'''YA &#^%@& WEKA!!!"'''"WEKA!!!'''"
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--->'''The Dog:''' Oh no! A weka snatched a baby duckling! Wal's not here. What would he do?" '''''"YA &#^%@& WEKA!!!"'''''

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--->'''The Dog:''' Oh no! A weka snatched a baby duckling! Wal's not here. What would he do?" '''''"YA do? "'''''YA &#^%@& WEKA!!!"'''''WEKA!!!"'''"
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* RawEggsMakeYouStronger: Wal begins his rugby training by smashing two handfuls of eggs together into a glass, drinks them down... and rushes off to the toilet to [[VomitDiscretionShot vomit them back up]].

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* RawEggsMakeYouStronger: Wal begins his rugby training by smashing two handfuls of eggs together into a glass, drinks drinking them down... and rushes rushing off to the toilet to [[VomitDiscretionShot vomit them back up]].

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* LumberMillMayhem: The Dog gets chased through the Murphys' sawmill by the Murphys' dog, narrowly avoiding the whirring buzzsaws.

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* LumberMillMayhem: The Dog gets chased through the Murphys' sawmill by the Murphys' dog, dogs, narrowly avoiding the whirring buzzsaws.


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* SawBladesOfDeath: The Dog gets chased through the Murphys' sawmill by the Murphys' dogs, narrowly avoiding the whirring buzzsaws.
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* BizarreBelching: In one four-strip story Horse gorges himself on a massive amount of rotten fish-heads. Just as an incredulous Dog muses he can't believe ''anyone'' could eat '''that''' many rotten fish-heads with no ill effects, Horse belches and emits a visible cloud of miasma that kills a meters-long stretch of grass.


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* BriarPatching: Subverted when Dog word-for-word attempts to invoke the trick on an angered Wal. Cut to later in which Dog, having been thrown into the briar patch, is cursing out the literary reference as it turns out being thrown in a briar patch is incredibly unpleasant.


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* CatConcerto: One strip depicts Horse singing loudly on a fence... until Wal Footrot silences him with a gumboot.


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* ObliviousAdoption: The Dog was raised in a cats' home, by a cat-obsessed old lady, and for many years thought he himself was a cat. He got over it. Similarly, Horse originally thought he was a baby coat.


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* PetDressUp: Wal's niece Pongo frequently dresses up the Dog, much to the Dog's annoyance (although he does rather enjoy the raspberry drop tea he gets fed during her make-believe tea parties).


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* SummonBiggerFish: A mean local boy keeps threatening and goading Rangi into having his like-minded dog fight the protagonist Dog. He backs down when Rangi suggests his dog fight the local stray cat Horse instead.


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* VisibleOdor: When Jess is in heat, she exudes little hearts.
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* MatingSeasonMayhem: Multiple arcs deal with the antics of the Dog (and the other dogs) trying to get to Jess when she's in heat.
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* AlliterativeTitle: '''F'''ootrot '''F'''lats


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* HappyRain: Subverted in one bound collection. The front cover shows Wal, the Dog and Cooch walking through a parched landscape and looking excitedly at a mass of clearly long-awaited rain clouds. The back cover shows the same trio trudging grumpily through the ensuing downpour.
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* AsiansEatPets: One of the characters is Rangi Jones, a Maori kid whom the Dog worries is measuring him for a dogskin cloak, and one day he's going to wake up with his fur stretched on a rack while everything else is being cooked with vegetables in a pit oven for a hangi dinner.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Wal and Cheeky, and to a lesser extent [[KissingCousins Cooch and his Cousin Cathy]]. [[spoiler:Surprisingly, by the end of the series Wal and Cheeky break up forever, but [[TheyDo Cooch and Cathy actually get together]].]]

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Wal and Cheeky, and to a lesser extent [[KissingCousins Cooch and his Cousin Cathy]]. [[spoiler:Surprisingly, by the end of the series Wal and Cheeky break up forever, but [[TheyDo [[RelationshipUpgrade Cooch and Cathy actually get together]].]]
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Gag Boobs has been renamed to Boob Based Gag. Changing to the proper trope where appropriate and cutting misuse.


* GagBoobs: Dolores 'Cheeky' Hobson.
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Alien Lunch is no longer a trope.


* AlienLunch: Happens as Wal is scoffing down the lunch Cooch made him in the back country. Wal remarks that he loves freshwater crayfish only for Cooch to remark "Yeah, but how do you feel about them [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_weta cave wetas?"]]
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Corrupt Hick was renamed Small Town Tyrant as it does not apply to villains that simply happen to be hicks. See this TRS thread for details.


* CorruptHick: The Murphys, Wal's neighbors.
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* EditorialSynaesthesia: Whenever Jess is in heat [[UpToEleven (nearly all the time)]] she gives off little hearts.

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* EditorialSynaesthesia: Whenever Jess is in heat [[UpToEleven (nearly all the time)]] time) she gives off little hearts.
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* FoulWaterfowl: The Goose occasionally stalks Wal and pecks his posterior whenever possible. In the film ''The Dog's Tale'', the goose attempts to peck Wal and finally gets his chance when Wal rescues Irish Murphy from a river.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: At times, the Dog is [[TastesLikeDiabetes positively saccharine]] in his love and devotion to Wal, at the same time the amount of effort he invests in his {{Zany Scheme}}s to drive away [[LoveInterest Cheeky Hobson]] at times rivals what he goes through to keep his name secret.

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* ClingyJealousGirl: At times, the Dog is [[TastesLikeDiabetes positively saccharine]] saccharine in his love and devotion to Wal, at the same time the amount of effort he invests in his {{Zany Scheme}}s to drive away [[LoveInterest Cheeky Hobson]] at times rivals what he goes through to keep his name secret.
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* EarNotch: Major the pig dog--who hunts feral pigs--is missing the tip of one ear.

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* ThoughtBubbleSpeech

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* ThoughtBubbleSpeechThoughtBubbleSpeech: This is how The Dog speaks in most strips, but on rare occasions other animals, or even humans, use it as well.



* WidgetSeries: It's very... New Zealandy.
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* EnemyMine: The Dog normally can't stand Aunt Dolly, but will happily team up with her to try and keep Cheeky Hobson away from Wal.
-->'''The Dog:''' ''<after he and Aunt Dolly guilt trip Wal into promising to come home from his date early>'' United we stand, comrade.
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* TheAce: Wal's brother.

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* TheAce: Wal's brother.brother Rex.



* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Wal's little brother Rex, who beats him in every game and sport they compete at.

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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Wal's little brother Rex, who beats him in every game and sport they compete at. At one point, Wal gets desperate enough to propose the two have their dogs fight, with The Dog disgusted at being expected to beat up the reluctant Rex's tiny little Scottish Terrier.
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* ADogNamedCat: The semi-feral cat Horse got his name from the first time Wal saw him and exclaimed "Cripes! He's as big as a horse!"
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I can't find the exact strip in question, but there's no way the dog would pose rabbits in the veggies to Wal as "good news"


-->'''Dog:''' Wal, good news: there's rabbits in the veges. Bad news: It's not going to matter...

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-->'''Dog:''' Wal, good bad news: there's rabbits in the veges. Bad Good news: It's not going to matter...
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* FryingPanOfDoom : Wal once gave his girlfriend Cheeky Hobson [[GiftGivingGaffe a frying pan for her birthday]]. It wound up wrapped around his head.


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* GiftGivingGaffe: Wal once gave his girlfriend Cheeky Hobson a frypan wrapped up with a yellow bow for her birthday. [[FryingPanOfDoom It wound up wrapped around his head.]]
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* BerserkButton: The Dog will go to amazing lengths to make sure his name remains secret. At a dog show, he sticks himself halfway into a loud speaker trying to get the mouthy beggar inside. Once, to stop Aunt Dolly from saying it, he actually [[{{Squick}} sticks his tongue inside her mouth]], [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments much to their mutual disgust and horror]].

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* BerserkButton: The Dog hates his name with a passion and will go to amazing lengths to make sure his name it remains a secret. At a dog show, he sticks himself halfway into a loud speaker trying to get the mouthy beggar inside. Once, to stop Aunt Dolly from saying it, he actually [[{{Squick}} sticks his tongue inside her mouth]], [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments much to their mutual disgust and horror]].

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