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The Guardian - UK
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Nick Park's Gromit was a whisker away from being a cat

Wallace & Gromit
Gromit's metamorphosis is complete. Photograph: Dreamworks/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Wallace & Gromit go together like Batman and Robin, the Lone Ranger and Tonto and Crockett and Tubbs, don't they? Apparently not, says creator Nick Park. Park has revealed the loveable mutt was originally intended to be a cat, reports the Mail. However, the moggy sidekick didn't get off the drawing board after Park realised it was much easier to model a dog. "Plus I had a packet of dog's noses from a craft shop on me ... so Gromit became a dog," he told the Radio Times.

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