Missing a world record by a nose: Not quite enough dogs see documentary in Middlebury

More than 200 dogs attended a screening in Middlebury last weekend of the new Netflix documentary “ Inside the Mind of a Dog .”

That’s a lot of dogs, period , let alone dogs attending a movie. But it still wasn’t quite as many dogs as organizers of the screening had hoped for.

The film’s director, Andy Mitchell of Middlebury, organized the Aug. 10 screening at the town’s hockey rink. He was hoping to break the Guinness World Record for most dogs to attend a film screening. The nonprofit arts and event organization he co-founded, Middlebury Underground , needed 220 dogs and their owners to see the film.

“We were 10 dogs short,” Mitchell wrote in an email to the Burlington Free Press. “Which is a bummer, because we had 280 pre-registrations.”

Mitchell attributed the disappointing turnout in part to the arrival that weekend of the remnants of Hurricane Debby and the need for potential attendees to prove their dogs have had a rabies vaccine. But “Inside the Mind of a Dog,” narrated by Rob Lowe, reached number three on Netflix’s top-10 list this week, which “really helps the sting,” according to Mitchell.

“We also get three attempts” at the record, he wrote in the email. “so we’re very much hoping to try again.”

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com .

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