Now you've said it, I do remember reading about an anime version of the doggie story. They also did TV series anime versions of Anne of Green Gables and many of the other classic Euro-Canadian children's stories. Not to get in trouble with the spelling this time o'night, Hayao Miyazaki, the man who is the guiding force behind Studio Ghibli, just did The Little Mermaid story; Ponyo it's called. He of course makes everything very Japanese. Some of his things make me incredibly nostalgic for postwar Japan, and I certainly was never there. I don't know if he's ever visited Scotland.