Old Yeller

Katie Coates:
If that don't beat all. I never saw such a dog.

Jim Coates:
Now and then, for no good reason, life will haul off and knock a man flat.

Travis Coates:
Papa, you ain't forgetting the horse.

Jim Coates:
What horse?

Travis Coates:
Now Papa, you know I've been aching all over for a good horse to ride. I've told you time and again.

Jim Coates:
What you're needing more than a horse is a good dog.

Travis Coates:
Yes sir, but what I'm wanting most is a horse.

Jim Coates:
Alright, you act a man's part and I'll bring you a man's horse.

Katie Coates:
Now Arliss, you ride back here with Yeller.

Arliss Coates:
On a count of he's a sicker Injun than me?

Katie Coates:
Yes.

Arliss Coates:
What's Papa gonna sell our steers for?

Travis Coates:
For money, of course.

Arliss Coates:
What's money?

Travis Coates:
That's what you buy things with.

Arliss Coates:
What do you mean by buy things?

Travis Coates:
Well when you have money, you give it to people for stuff. They say you can get anything for money.

Arliss Coates:
Anything? What's it look like?

Travis Coates:
I never seen but one piece. A dollar bill Papa had.

Arliss Coates:
What'd Papa buy with his dollar?

Travis Coates:
Nothing that wasn't no good.

Arliss Coates:
But you just said you could get anything with money.

Travis Coates:
But Papa's was confederate.

Arliss Coates:
What's confederate money?

Travis Coates:
Confederate money? Well, it's...

Arliss Coates:
Well?

Travis Coates:
Don't you ever run out of questions?

Arliss Coates:
Why did you shoot Rosemary?

Travis Coates:
She was sick.

Arliss Coates:
Well, you were sick. How come we didn't shoot you?

Travis Coates:
That was different.

Arless:
How fer off is heaven?

Travis:
Oh, I don't know, in a fer peace, I guess.

Tarvis:
What happened?

Mama:
It was so sudden, I don't hardly know.

Travis:
Mama, listen. Old Yeller just saved your life and Elizabeth's, too. And he saved mine and Arliss'. We can't. We don't know for certain. I'll pen him up where he can't get out. A-and then we'll wait. We could not shoot up like he was nothing. Don't you understand?

Mama:
Alright, son. If you think there's a chance.

“Never was a dog like O’l Belle”

Katie Coates:
If that don't beat all. I never saw such a dog.

Travis Coates:
And you won't never see another one like him.

[Old Yeller has contracted rabies and must be put down; Katie brings out the gun]

Travis Coates:
No, Mama!

Katie Coates:
There's no hope for him now, Travis. He's suffering. You know we've got to do it.

Travis Coates:
Yes, Mama. But he was my dog. I'll do it.

Lisbeth Searcy:
Travis? If you could just come to like the pup. He's - he's part Old Yeller.

Travis Coates:
Maybe part Old Yeller, but he ain't Old Yeller.

Burn Sanderson:
[about how to tell if an animal has rabies] You can't hardly tell at first, not till they get to the point of slobbering and staggering around. When you see a critter in that fix, you know for sure. But you want to watch for others that ain't that far along. Now, you take a bobcat or a fox. You know they'll run if you give 'em the chance. But when one don't run, or maybe makes fight at you, why, you shoot him and shoot him quick. After he's bitten you, it's too late.