Here, he is seen chasing the titular cat, General. After Vic came Donna was rushed to the hospital, and Cujo's head is extracted for a biopsy to check for rabies before to the cremation of his remains.Ĭujo smashes through the Camber window, and turns over to Donna in the kitchen, who had successfully revived Tad, and Cujo makes one more attempt to kill her before she shoots him directly in between the eyes and kills him.Īlthough Cujo does not physically appear due to his death, he is mentioned by Jud Crandall during his conversation with Louis Creed, with Jud saying that in downstate Maine, they had a 'saint bernard that went rabid', referring to the events of the novel.Īlong with Christine, Cujo makes a cameo appearance in the 1985 film Cat's Eye.

When Sheriff Bannerman came, Cujo comes and attacks him, Donna who's desperate to save her son she grabs a baseball bat and attacks Cujo with the bat killing him in the process, however it's too late for her to save Tad as he died of dehydration and heatstroke.

In the novel, he was killed after being hit by a baseball bat. In the end of both the book and movie, Cujo was seemingly killed by Tad Trenton's mother named Donna (who also tried to save her son from dying of heat stroke), by being shot by the sheriff's gun. Bernard of the Camber family who only wanted to be a good dog, but was bitten by a rabid bat in the nose when his head got stuck in a bat cave while chasing a rabbit (which was shown at the beginning of the movie).Ĭujo then went mad with rabies and killed any person he came across including one of his own owners, conducting a murderous reign of terror on Castle Rock. He was portrayed by Moe and his vocal sound effects were provided by Frank Welker.Ĭujo was once the beloved St. He was once a friendly and playful companion, but when he was bitten by a bat and contracted rabies, he went insane and was turned into a vicious killer that attacked anybody who came near him. ~ Stephen King about Cujo and his tragic fate.Ĭujo is the titular main antagonist of Stephen King's 1981 novel and its 1983 film adaptation of the same name, a posthumous antagonist in Stephen King's 1984 novel, Pet Semetary and his 1990 novella, The Sun Dog and a minor antagonist in the 1985 film, Cat's Eye. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies.

He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog.

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