Travis tearfully takes Old Yeller out to the woods and shoots him ... So here’s the question: What’s the big deal? This is a sad story, undoubtedly. Despite the media’s warm feelings ...

Toward the end of Fred Gipson’s 1956 classic, “Old Yeller,” Travis says, “It was going to kill something inside me to do it, but I knew then that I had to shoot my big yeller dog.” ...