Dorothy McGuire credited as playing...
Katie Coates
- [Old Yeller has contracted hydrophobia and must be put down; Katie brings out the gun]
- Travis Coates: No, Mama!
- Katie Coates: There's no hope for him now, Travis. He's suffering. You know we've got to do it.
- Travis Coates: Yes, Mama. But he was my dog. I'll do it.
- Katie Coates: If that don't beat all. I never saw such a dog.
- Travis Coates: And you won't never see another one like him.
- Travis Coates: What happened?
- Katie Coates: It was so sudden, I don't hardly know. The wolf came leapin' out at us.
- Travis Coates: Lucky you had Old Yeller.
- Katie Coates: It was lucky for us, son, but it weren't lucky for Old Yeller.
- Travis Coates: He's chewed up some, but he ain't bad hurt.
- Katie Coates: No wolf in his right mind would've jumped us at the fire... not even a loafer wolf. That wolf was mad. I'll shoot him... if you can't. But either way, we've got it to do.
- Travis Coates: Mama, listen. Old Yeller just saved your life, and Elizabeth too! And he saved mine and Arliss'! We can't! We don't know for certain. I'll pen him up where he can't get out. And-And then we'll wait. We can't just shoot him like he was nothin'. Don't you understand?
- Katie Coates: All right, son. If you think there's a chance
- Katie Coates: Now Arliss, you ride back here with Yeller.
- Arliss Coates: On a count of he's a sicker Injun than me?
- Katie Coates: Yes.