History Videogame / DogsLife

* AbsentMindedProfessor: The scientist in Clarksville.

** Most of the dogs. Subverted with Jake, Daisy, Lopez the Chihuahua and Pixie Frou-Frou.

* CrazyCatLady: [[BigBad Miss Peaches.]]

* MeaningfulName: The Loud Brothers

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "Miss Peaches! Is! Cat Food!"

* SpoiledBrat: Brittany Christina.

[[caption-width-right:252:[[https://www.tumblr.com/toonfinatic/668774000696213504/okay-buckle-in-this-game-is-my-favorite-game-of POV: You are about to play one of the most vile games ever produced.]]]]

'''Don't confuse with VideoGame/DogLife'''

The game was praised for his premise because, let's face it, who doesn't like the idea of controlling a life-like dog? Although, it was criticized for its [[CameraScrew weird camera scheme.]] Also, as of 2009, it holds the world record for most voice overs done by one person in a video game with Kerry Shale voicing over 30 different characters.

'''Dont confuse with VideoGame/DogLife'''

''Dog's Life'' is a Platform/PlayStation2 game initially released on the 31st of October 2003. In the game, you meet Jake, a slick farmhouse dog with some...ahem...[[ToiletHumour vile habits]] and a crush on the neighbor's dog, Daisy. But Daisy is kidnapped and with a plot set into motion, its up to the heroic Jake to rescue her with plenty of challenges, scent sniffing, ripping fur off cats, InnocentInnuendo and even crapping on the sidewalk. Yup, it's that kind of game...

''Dog's Life'' is a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game initially released on the 31st of October 2003. In the game, you meet Jake, a slick farmhouse dog with some...ahem...[[ToiletHumour vile habits]] and a crush on the neighbor's dog, Daisy. But Daisy is kidnapped and with a plot set into motion, its up to the heroic Jake to rescue her with plenty of challenges, scent sniffing, ripping fur off cats, InnocentInnuendo and even crapping on the sidewalk. Yup, it's that kind of game...

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler: Miss Peaches]] who is [[spoiler:sliced, diced and mashed into cat food]]. Remember this is a '''kid's''' game!

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: "Miss Peaches! Is! Cat Food!"]]

** [[spoiler: Done outright with Miss Peaches. "Miss Peaches! Is! Cat Food!"]]

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Averted. Miss Peaches swears vengeance on the two dogs but dies seconds later.]]

* {{Slapstick}}: [[spoiler: Averted. Miss Peaches falls into the 'Big Machine' and emerges as an oversized can. Then she is pulled back into the machine and killed. Just so there cannot be any doubt, we then see a row of very small cans coming out of the machine...]]

* CameraScrew

* CatsAreMean: More like cat owners are mean. All open cat owners are very hostile toward Jake and comment on how they hate dogs. Miss Peaches takes it UpToEleven though.

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* {{Gasshole}}: Jake has tendency to unleash killer farts.[[spoiler:comes in handy at the end of the game]]

** Kurt Chickenbrian, the Giftedly Bad guitarist in Clarksville, can play guitar well but his vocals are awful.

* {{Fartillery}}: Jake's "talent" of unleashing absolutely toxic farts. In the opening cut scene they are noxious enough to kill a butterfly that happens by.[[spoiler:and in the end this is what defeats Miss peaches]]

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* ThemeTuneCameo: One of the songs the guitarist in Boom City performs is the main menu music. He also performs the credit music.

* InfantImmortality: In the game, Jake can grab kittens and rip all the fur of them, leaving them bare. In a mission where he has to rescue kittens, the same rules do not apply.

* AmbiguouslyGay: The Elton John parody "Elton Jack", Tistrum Tittletattle and to a lesser extent, the waiter at Lake Miniwaha Café.
* AnimalsSeeInMonochrome: When seeing through Jake's POV everything is in monochrome except for scents.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Miss Peaches.

* DeadpanSnarker: Jake

* TheDitz: Dwayne

** The Big Machine is a big machine...that kills dogs.

* AirVentPassageway: When Jake enters Miss Peaches’ house, he appears in a factory hall but the exit of the hall is an air vent despite the fact that he entered through a door. The reason for this is never given.

** Killer’s gender is never revealed despite the fact he/she has the second most appearances of any dog in the game.
* AmbiguouslyGay: The Elton John parody “Elton Jack”, Tistrum Tittletattle and to a lesser extent, the waiter at Lake Miniwaha Café.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Miss Peaches’ house.

** The game allows you to play basketball-like mini-games in certain levels. It just seems like a fun mini game and isn’t required to progress through the game, however what does the final mission involve you to do? Shoot three spanners into the hole of the ‘Big Machine’. If you have played the basketball mini games, this is way easier to do. The game is very subtle about this however.
** Also, Jake’s ability to let out killer farts.

* DeathGlare: Implied in the Lake Miniwaha radio station, where Elton Jack lies about being able to impersonate Stan’s favourite celebrity, [[Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio Leonardo D’Saprio.]]

* DetectiveAnimal: Jake finds Daisy all by himself in the game but bonus points for somehow being able to figure out that Miss Peaches is behind it all. He never comes into contact with Miss Peaches and the audience learns she is the antagonist through cutscenes that do not include Jake. But yet, as he soon as he enters the cat-food factory, he instantly knows Miss Peaches isn’t “making ordinary cat food.” Or it might just be a PlotHole. There is plenty of dark foreshadowing on the radio stations though, so presumably Jake could have put together the pieces of the dognappings and Peaches' new cat food, together with her barely veiled hatred of dogs in general.
* DiabolicalDogcatcher: Averted. The dogcatcher seems to like his job but he gives up rather easily if he doesn’t catch the dog in 10 seconds. At the end, he states he’s had it with his job and goes off to do his dream job - programming computer games.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Hank, the Clarksville radio presenter used to know Miss Peaches. Hank is interrupted when he says that he “remembers the time when they-” but is interrupted by Clarisse.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Dwayne asks if Miss Peaches is going to hurt the little doggy seconds after she told him that the dog was going to be “sliced, diced and mashed.”

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we first meet Jake, he tries to impress Daisy with a vile fart. Talk about an establishing character moment… This both foreshadows the final showdown and is a simultaneous brick joke about Jake farting in front of his girlfriend.

** ‘Miss Peaches’ Crunchy Cat Food’. It even comes in a tin.
** The Big Machine is a big machine…that kills dogs.

* EvilLaugh: Miss Peaches’ laugh. It’ll actually scare you due to how intensely maniacal it is.

* ForcedLevelGrinding: To progress to the next town, you have to get more bones than the dogcatcher’s Doberman, especially if you have just escaped from him.

** The radio plays advertisements for ‘Miss Peaches’ Crunchy Cat Food’ and ’Miss Peaches’ Cat Food In A Can’ regularly.
** In one of Miss Peaches’ commercials, she says that her employees undergo “thorough skin examination to prevent nasty dog fleas.” The ‘employees’ she refer to are most likely the kidnapped dogs.
** The voiceover in the Cat Food In A Can commercial says “Miss Peaches! Is Cat! Food!”
** Miss Peaches has a [[ToiletHumour “sensitivity to rude or coarse behaviour.”]]

* GroinAttack: Two kids want Jake to collect some eggs for them so they can throw them at the butcher…They have a hell of an aim.
* HeelFaceTurn: '''ALL''' of Miss Peaches’ henchmen. The dogcatcher gets bored of the job and leaves to pursue his dream of ‘developing computer games’ and Wayne and Dwayne later open up their own hypoallergenic dog grooming parlour.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Tistrum Tittletattle tells Miss Peaches if she was a dog-lover she could call herself “Miss Pooches.” Miss Peaches is less than amused.

** The ‘Talking Pussy’ segment is packed with these.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wayne, Miss Peaches’ henchman, is very bitter and frustrated (mostly likely due to his dog allergies), he redeems himself at the end of the game when he and Dwayne open up a hypo-allergenic dog grooming parlour where Wayne loves playing with the dogs.

** Except the obvious Miss Peaches, the butcher and the shopkeeper in the Clarksville centre are complete assholes to Jake. The butcher threatens to shoot Jake if he doesn’t go away but that doesn’t stop him from laughing if Jake farts or poos on his doorstep.

** Brittany Christina in Lake Miniwaha’s radio show. And she’s only 8 years old!
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: “Miss Peaches! Is! Cat Food!”]]

** When the cable car runner gives Jake a bone for rescuing his brother. He states that “he always keeps a spare bone in my pocket should a dog help in a daring rescue.” This is still a bit strange because he has his own dog, so his reason for having a bone in his pocket is pretty much justified whereas characters like the mailman, the scientist and the guitar players don’t.
** Also, the “C.H.I.C.K.” radio station in Clarksville has to repeat itself because Hank thought he forgot to press the transmitter button, meaning they have to do the whole show all over again.
** In Boom City, you have to help a woman get all her runaway kittens back into her house. She appears on the Boom City radio and explains that the kittens have escaped again, she then figures that it’s because there is no door on her house.
** When the sheepdog gets all the sheep in the pen, the farmer says that it’s the fastest she’s ever done and “it was like she was possessed or something.”
* LovableCoward: The scientist. He’s crazy, funny and completely useless.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: While Wayne or the Dogcatcher don’t do anything specifically evil except follow Miss Peaches’ malicious orders, Dwayne is this trope to a T. He doesn’t know what Miss Peaches is going to do with the dogs and constantly asks for reassurance that she won’t hurt them. Plus, he actually wants to play with the dogs he has just kidnapped.
* MoneySpider: Surprisingly yes in a game that has no enemies or money. Every single human, Jake helps hands him a bone as a reward. While this can sometimes be justified as some are dog-owners, you can’t help but ask yourself why a postman, a pianist, a farmer or even a scientist keeps a spare bone on them.

** Daisy is in the “Big Machine” where she will be “sliced, diced, mashed.”
** [[spoiler: Done outright with Miss Peaches. “Miss Peaches! Is! Cat Food!”]]

* PlanetOfSteves: In Clarksville, everyone’s surname begins with ‘Chicken.’ Hiram J. Chickenplucker, Clarisse Chickenfoot, Gramps Chickenfart, Kurt Chickenbrian. Also Miss Peaches came from Clarksville and her real name is ‘Loretta Chickenmeat.’ Wonder why she changed her name?

* {{Pun}}: [[CrazyCatLady Miss Peaches]] gives us this. “This isn’t the last you’ll see of me-OWWW!!”
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: “Miss Peaches! Is! Cat Food!”

** A parrot in the game will sometimes say [[Series/DoctorWho “Intruder! Intruder! Ex-ter-min-ate! Ex-ter-min-ate!”]]

** One of Elton Jack’s wigs is an [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis wig.]]
** Stan’s favourite celebrity is [[Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio Leonardo D’Saprio]] who starred in a movie about a [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} sinking ship.]]
** Elton is fond of these. When Jake finds the first wig, he calls him [[Westernanimation/ScoobyDoo “Scooby.”]]

** 8-year old pop princess [[Music/BritneySpears “Brittany]] [[Music/ChristinaAguilera Christina.”]]
* {{Slapstick}}: [[spoiler: Averted. Miss Peaches falls into the ‘Big Machine’ and emerges as an oversized can. Then she is pulled back into the machine and killed. Just so there cannot be any doubt, we then see a row of very small cans coming out of the machine...]]

** “I’m Hiram J. Chickenplucker but you can call me Hank.”
** Also, Miss Peaches' real name is Loretta but everyone calls her “Miss Peaches.”

* ThemeTwinNaming: The ‘Loud Brothers’ Dan and Stan.

* TitleDrop: At the end. “Well, that was it, the story of a Dog’s Life.”
* ToiletHumour: The reason this game received a T rating in the US. Seriously. In the UK, it received a 3+ and other countries gave it lower ratings. But then again, crapping on the sidewalk, picking up that crap and throwing it about is probably just a tad much…
* TwoWordsAddedEmphasis: When Hank asks Clarisse if the caller is available again she replies “One word: Uh-uh.”

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Miss Peaches’ warning on the ‘Talking Pussy‘ segment. “You cross Miss Peaches and she will '''SLAP YOU SILLY!”'''

''Dog's Life'' is a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game initially released on the 31st of October 2003. In the game, you meet Jake, a slick farmhouse dog with some...ahem...[[ToiletHumour vile habits]] and a crush on the neighbor's dog, Daisy. But Daisy is kidnapped and with a plot set into motion, its up to the heroic Jake to rescue her with plenty of challenges, scent sniffing, ripping fur off cats, InnocentInnuendo and even crapping on the sidewalk. Yup, it's that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kind of game...]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The game got a T rating in America for farting and depicting the main character urinating and defecating. Yet a lot of more ‘risky’ stuff was ignored. In Europe, it got a 3+ rating:
** The character Gramps. He is an old man who sleeps in his front yard. When he is woken up by Jake, he says things such as “That’s it. Now up a bit. Now squeeze. Ouch!” and “No officer! I found her like that dress up in that tight…Oh, it’s just you Jake.”
** Gramps also appears on the radio, asking Clarisse to come round and visit him because he “needs some female company and the Kylie tapes are getting old.”
** Gramps says he loves Kylie especially when she “shakes her cute little-” He is cut off by Hank before he can finish.
** Also the radio show ‘Talking Pussy’ is full of InnocentInnuendo but Miss Peaches takes the cake when she says “Pussies are my children, and all my children are pussies.”
** '''“Get your doggy asses into the big machine!”'''
** Tistrum Tittletattle gets quite excited when Miss Peaches threatens to hit him.
-->'''Tistrum''': Do you feel the need to…'''punish me?'''

* {{Gasshole}}: Jake has tendency to unleash killer farts.[[spoilers:comes in handy at the end of the game]]

* HeelFaceTurn: ‘’’ALL’’’ of Miss Peaches’ henchmen. The dogcatcher gets bored of the job and leaves to pursue his dream of ‘developing computer games’ and Wayne and Dwayne later open up their own hypoallergenic dog grooming parlour.

** Also the radio show ‘Talking Pussy’ is full of Innocent Innuendo but Miss Peaches takes the cake when she says “Pussies are my children, and all my children are pussies.”

** In Boom City, you have to help a woman get all her runaway kittens back into her house. She appears on the Boom City radio and explains that he kittens have escaped again, she then figures that it’s because there is no door on her house.

* ThemeTwinNaming: The ‘Loud Brothers’ Dan and Stan

* VillainwithGoodPublicity: Miss Peaches, the number 1 name in cat food and a huge celebrity with a huge fan base.