Shadow (Homeward Bound)

Shadow is a golden retriever and the deuteragonist of and .
In the first film, he was voiced by the late (who died after the film came out). In the sequel, he was voiced by the late . Coincidentally, both actors died at the age of 85.
==Biography==
Shadow is a wise, old golden retriever, who is very loyal and obedient to his owner Peter, a teenage boy who loves him very dearly. Given his age, he sees the way of a dog as his own law. His pet comrades are Chance, a young, immature American bulldog and Sassy, a Himalayan cat who respects Shadow despite him being a dog. He considers himself Chance's guardian as he feels he must watch over the "pup" and keep him from out of trouble. Chance thinks of him as an old fusspot and calls him "old timer", but still has respect for him as well. Though, when Shadow tries to stop him from leaving, after Delilah rejected him because of him, Chance angrily tells him off to leave him alone, clearly furious with him and everyone else for their unforgivable actions by trying to keep him and Delilah apart and what they said to him. He berates Shadow and the others for their actions, and says that he doesn't need him, or Sassy, or Delilah, or anyone else and continues storming off, leaving Delilah feeling guilty and ashamed for what she had done and leaving everyone else to watch helplessly as he vanished out of site. For an old dog, he can hold up on his own, as he is able to outrun a mountain lion and keep up in a fight against mean stray dogs.
==Trivia==
*Shadow maybe a wise old dog, but he's also proved to be selfish like when trying to split Chance and Delilah apart, claiming it was for the best (which was really best for him and Riley). For that, he and the gang got told off, berated and insulted by Chance for that. Never actually forgiven for that.
*He also had little inexperience to outside world than Chance (formally a stray long ago) did. Though first dismissing Chance's warnings about potentially getting caught and taken to the pound, it actually happened, and Shadow sees that that the young pup was right all along and knew this would happen. Which gave him a lesson to the outside world in return from a young generation.
*Like Chance and Sassy, he is known to make a false conclusion for what is really happening: like thinking the vet in the pound is torturing and killing Chance and that they are being kept in the pound forever, when in reality, they are really helping Chance by removing the quills off his face and they are only kept here for safety because their owners were on their way to pick them up, without them realizing it as they all escaped.
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