“you’re able to kill almost anyone else.”

Rest easy, dog lovers: The canine at the center of the movieDogdoes not die.

“We love dogs over here,” Tatum tells EW.

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Channing Tatum in ‘Dog’.Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/MGM

“It’s one of those things, no one really wants one of those movies.

Just don’t kill the dog you’re free to kill almost anyone else.”

I had her from the time that she was six weeks old.

She was like my child, my shadow she was everything.

And this is a very, very, very different story," Tatum explains.

The moment involves Briggs and Lulu taking a pit stop on the side of the road.

After relieving themselves, Lulu runs off.

When she returns, she has bird feathers in her mouth.

Even still, Tatum jokes that any real errors came from him and not the pups.

“I don’t think a dog can really mess up a take, personally.

Because a dog is just being purely a dog, so it can’t physically mess up the take.

We are asking it to be a dog, that’s about it.

And we’re trying to craft the world around the thing so it can just honestly be itself.”

He adds, “So I’m sure I messed up almost everything.”

“I really think that like I directed the dog and Reid directed me.

I don’t know if I’ve directed my first movie really.”

“We thought we were making a really good decision,” Tatum says of the film.

And then cut to it’s one of the hardest possible movies to go and attempt to make."

Carolin wrote the screenplay with a story by him and Brett Rodriguez.

For more with Tatum, check out the full video above.