In the film Red Dog, Kriv Stenders reveals Red Dog, an Australian Kelpie as “a cheeky little bastard ” who enriches the life of everyone he comes in contact with. Red helps the community get over loss, and build great relationships thus suggesting that he is vital to the community, “Who is just like all of us; men and women who understands the meaning of independence, and the importance of a generous heart”.In the movie Stenders shows how a group of people who move to Dampier to become miners and earn more money. Red helps them by bringing them together as a community, he shows the importance of love and friendship.
Red Dog pulls the community together by making the town more than “just a bunch of dirty miners…” . He makes them