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{{Infobox television episode
| series         = [[The Ren & Stimpy Show]]
| image          = Ren & Stimpy It's a Dog's Life title card.webp
| caption        =
| season         = 4
| episode        = 12
| airdate        = {{Start date|1994|12|03}}
| production     = RS-408
| story          = [[Bob Camp]]<br>Jim Gomez
| director       = Ken Bruce
| guests         =
| episode_list   =
| prev           = [[Powdered Toast Man vs. Waffle Woman]]
| next           = [[Egg Yolkeo]]
}}
'''It's A Dog's Life''' is the 12th episode  of the fourth season of ''[[The Ren & Stimpy Show]]'' that originally aired on [[Nickelodeon]] in the United States on 3 December 1994.
==Plot==
Ren and Stimpy are to be passed at a dog hound when they adopted by a seemingly kind old lady, Granny.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}} At her mansion, Ren and Stimpy are the victims of abuse by Granny and her Chinese servant, Mr. Hao.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}} Ren and Stimpy are neutered, and escape from the mansion only to be recaptured by the police.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}} The duo are returned and find that Granny has died.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}} In her will, she states that Ren and Stimpy are to put to death and stuffed, an order that Mr. Hao obeys who kills Ren and Stimpy and stuffs them.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}}
==Cast==
*Ren-voice of [[Billy West]]
*Stimpy-voice of Billy West
*Dogcatcher-voice of [[Bob Camp]]
*Granny-voice of Billy West
*Mr. Hao-voice of Billy West
==Production==
The episode was a remake of the banned 1992 episode [[Man's Best Friend (The Ren & Stimpy Show)|''Man's Best Friend'']] with Granny serving as a female [[George Liquor]].{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=258}} The episode was illustrated by the Wang studio of Taiwan.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}}
==Reception==
The American critic Thad Komorowski rated the episode one star out of five.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=408}} Komorowksi wrote that ''It's A Dog's Life'' was a deeply unfunny and unpleasant story that was painful to watch.{{sfn|Komorowski|2017|p=258}} The episode was heavily censored to remove many of the scenes of cruelty being inflicted on Ren and Stimpy by Granny.{{sfn|Finley|2018|p=148}}
==Books and articles==
*{{cite book |last1=Dobbs |first1=G. Michael |title=Escape – How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s |date=2015 |publisher=BearManor Media |location=Orlando |isbn=978-1593931100}}
*{{cite book |last1=Finley |first1=Laura L. |title=Violence in Popular Culture American and Global Perspectives |date=2018 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Monica |isbn=9781440854330}}
*{{cite book |last1=Komorowski |first1=Thad |title=Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story |date=2017 |publisher= BearManor Media |location=Albany, Georgia |isbn=978-1629331836}}
==References==
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[[Category:1994 American television episodes]]
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[[Category:Fiction about animal cruelty]]
[[Category:Television controversies in the United States]]
[[Category:Television episodes about murder]]
[[Category:Television episodes pulled from general rotation]]