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Dodie Smith wrote the novel upon which the movie was based after a friend joked that Dodie's four dalmatians would make a nice throw rug.

It's not like we need a complex backstory for why Cruella hates animals. She doesn't. She's just apathetic, vain, and self-centered. She thinks something would make a nice coat and she wants to make a coat out of it. The end.