Widow Tweed

Widow Tweed is a major character in The Fox and the Hound. She is Tod's guardian and a mother figure. After her neighbor Amos Slade swears vengeance against Tod for nearly killing his dog Chief, she is forced to take him to a wildlife refuge to keep him safe. In the end, she and Amos reconcile after Tod saves him from a bear.
She was voiced by the late Jeanette Nolan in the first film and voiced by the late Russi Taylor in the midquel, who also voiced Minnie Mouse and the Fairy Godmother.
==Personality==
Widow Tweed is kind, gentle and motherly.
She also gets angry at her neighbor, Amos Slade for trying to kill Tod.
She is caring and protective for a young fox and keep him safe with her.
== Appearances ==
=== The Fox and the Hound ===
When a fox cub's mother is shot and killed by a hunter, Big Mama the owl and her friends, Dinky the sparrow and Boomer the woodpecker, search for someone to look after the orphaned cub. They realize that Widow Tweed, a nearby widowed farmer who is known as a kind woman, would be the perfect person for the job. Boomer knocks on her door and when she sees Big Mama and Dinky picking her bloomers off her clothesline and drop them on the cub, she runs over and finds the young fox underneath. When she realizes he has no mother, she takes him in as her own. She names him Tod because he looks like such a little toddler. She tells him that with him there now, she's not going to be so lonesome anymore after the passing of her husband.
Widow Tweed cares for Tod, and he follows her everywhere. She notes that she cannot stay mad at him, even when he is being mischievous. After he begins annoying Abigail the Cow, she encourages him to run along and play. Unknown to her, he meets a hound puppy named Copper and they become friends. One day, her neighbor, Amos Slade chases Tod, trying to shoot him for harassing his chickens; during the chase, he accidentally nearly shoots Widow Tweed, destroying the pails of milk in the back of her car. Tweed stops her car and confronts Amos and Chief (who also chased Tod), making him stop his car in front of her. She furiously grabs Amos' rifle and shoots out the radiator in his truck in retaliation. She tells him that Tod would never hurt anyone or anything and warns Amos that his temper is going to get him in trouble someday, then orders him off her property. Deciding to keep Tod safe, she decides to coop him up inside, but she is glad the next day to see Amos and his two dogs, Chief and Copper, leave for a long hunting trip for the winter.
At some point during the winter, Tweed gives Tod a birthday party, celebrating his first birthday, and presents him with a collar. However, trouble starts up as Amos comes back to shoot him. He had gone onto Amos' property again, and a long chase had resulted in Chief nearly getting killed. Although Tweed prevents Amos from barging onto her property and locks up her door, Amos warns Tweed that she can't protect Tod forever. The next day, she makes the hard decision to release Tod into a nearby game preserve (which is also a forest) where he'll be safe and where he belongs.
Later, after the rescue of Amos and Copper from a bear by Tod, Tweed doctors Amos' leg, which he had injured in one of his own bear traps earlier.
=== The Fox and the Hound 2 ===
Widow Tweed only briefly appeared in and out of a few scenes in the second movie. Tweed is milking her cow, Abigail in her barn until she notices Tod being chased by Chief and Amos again while Copper only follows them. The chase leads to costing a bucket of milk, which later lands on Amos' head, and Abigail, with Amos on her back, running down the field like crazy in a rodeo; much to Tweed's dismay. After Amos lands in Tweed's pig sty, she reprimands him for allowing Chief to chase her fox again and costing her a milk bucket and then throws a pie at him when he doesn't seem to care about the milk incident. Later, when a fair comes into town, Widow Tweed enters Abigail in a Milking Contest and both win first prize until Tod inconspicuously borrows her cow to help him with Copper's peanut butter problem.
At the end of the movie, Tweed and Amos have pie together, but got interrupted by Tod and Copper rambunctious playing, which in a result, she attacks Amos with a broom.
==Gallery==
===Images===
Widow-Tweed-(Fox and the Hound).jpg|Widow Tweed in The Fox and the Hound
Widow Tweed nurturing Tod.jpg|Widow Tweed nurturing Tod
Fox-and-the-hound-disneyscreencaps.com-2886.jpg|Widow Tweed vs Amos Slade
Fox-disneyscreencaps_com-5436.jpg|Widow Tweed with a young adult Tod
Widow-Tod-(Fox_and_the_Hound).jpg|Widow Tweed bids farewell to Tod before releasing him
Fox_059.jpg|Widow Tweed in The Fox and the Hound 2
Fox-hound2-disneyscreencaps.com-993.jpg|Widow Tweed hugging Tod in the midquel
==Trivia==
*When she was going after Tod to save him from Amos and Chief chasing him all the way to the fair in the second film, she wears her usual hat but when she enters the fair to catch up with Tod, she is not seen wearing it. Also, in the first movie, her hat was usually purple and has a darker purple strip and white flower on it however it was beige and had a red strip and a red flower in the second movie.
*Jeanette Nolan, the original voice of Widow Tweed, was married to John McIntire, the voice of Mr. Digger in the same film). They previously voiced Ellie Mae and Rufus, respectively, in The Rescuers.
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