Napoleon (1995)

Murfin or "Napoleon" as he prefers calls himself is the main protagonist of the 1995 Australian film Napoleon. He is a young puppy who accidentally ends up in Australian nature, where he try to become a Wild Dog to feel brave and fearless, but this turns out to be harder than he thought, especially when chased by a psychotic and murderous cat.

Personnality
Napoleon is like many young, imaginative, turbulent and very thoughtless, jumping in a basket tied to balloons without wondering if it is dangerous and not even leaving it when his mother tells him to do it which leads to his trip unexpected. He is also quite heady, not listening to the many warnings of wild animals he comes across and also has no common sense as he chooses to always advance towards the dangerous instead of returning home.

He was initially aquaphobic but was then forced to overcome his fear of water to save one of his new friends.

After realizing that wild life was really hard, Napoleon wanted only one thing more than anything, returned home and found his mother.

History
Napoleon first appears in the garden of his owners, imagining that he is in the wild. When children invited for a birthday party plays and burst balloons, Napoleon approaches out of curiosity and ends up on an inflated turtle in the pool which he does not like because he hates water. Once the children are gone, Napoleon comes out of the pool and approaches in a basket hanging on balloons and finds it fun to enter and play. His mother orders him to go out but too heady as he is, he does not listen and the basket is detached from the tree and Napoleon finds himself in the air, under the worried looks of his mother. He climbs quickly so high that he can no longer jump but begins to find the danger situation rather cool and begins to sing "How High I'll Fly".

After spending some time flying next to the buildings, the basket goes back down to a station but suddenly pushed by a train which was on its way. The train then pushes Napoleon for several kilometers before stopping at the exit of a tunnel near the edge where the basket unhooks from the train and resumes its path. Napoleon then finds himself above the ocean where he crosses a very talkative parrot named Birdo who ends up bursting the balloons one by one to bring the puppy back to the ground.

After a disastrous landing but without too much damage on him, Napoleon realizes that he is in nature and realizes that he can now live a life without rules, to hunt, play and sleep only when he wants to. He suddenly hears a barking from Wild Dog and goes up the ravine to find him. He meets Birdo who is trying to get his attention but he does not listen to him because he wants to join the wild beasts but the parrot reminds him that he is only a house pet and that he will not survive a night in the wild, to which the puppy replies that Birdo is just trying to scare him before leaving in search of the Wild Dogs.

Trivia

 * The fact that he does not like water is quite ironic because dogs are known to be excellent swimmers, much less adults.