Arthur

A Dog's Remarkable Journey to Find a Home

7.6

|2017|13 min

A dog story about a stray traveling in the dense and swallowing Amazon jungle, the dusty streets of Quito, Ecuador, and a Switzerland. Arthur joined a race, and outpaced death, to find a new life with the adopted adventure seekers.

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