Age Cut: Young CJ sits down to play the guitar.

This was definitely the worst shot I ever got.'

He mentions this a few times throughout the film, presumably because he was euthanized as a puppy in his first life as a stray.

Adaptation Expansion: The film covers Bailey's lives mostly as they appear in the book, but it adds a completely new life between his lives as Ellie and Buddy: Tino the Corgi, owned by a lonely student named Maya.

His last life as Toby the second is also completely absent. This event is simply changed to the car accident which kills Molly.

In the second book, CJ spends some time being homeless in California after running away from Gloria.

In the book, Bailey and Ethan live together for many years until Ethan passes away.

The film ends perhaps a year or two at most after Bailey has reunited with Ethan as a different dog.

The Yard was shut down due to too many dogs in what they considered inhumane conditions, and he was put to sleep. There was some detail about his life there, and he learned how to open gates, which would help him in his later lives. The film version just shows him playing with his littermates as a stray and then being put in an animal control van before fading out, while in the book his first life lasted a whole 54 pages: he was a stray, found by humans, and raised in a place he called 'the Yard' with dozens of other dogs, and named 'Toby'.

In the film, his first life is particularly short.

Max is a Chihuahua-Yorkie mix in the book, but he's a straight-up Yorkie in the movie.

Molly in the book A Dog's Journey is a poodle mix.

Buddy in the book A Dog's Purpose is a Labrador Retriever.

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