Continuity mistake: When Buddy is chasing the cat through the house at the beginning of the movie, there is a shot where the cat is sitting down at the end of a corridor. The shot changes and gets in closer to the cat, which is now standing up.
Continuity mistake: In the same scene as above, the kid's dad comes out of his lab with a bunch of wires all over him, and a mask on. When a camera shows an outside view and you can see the parents' shadows on the curtain, you can see his dad has no wires on him, and no mask.
Answer: Butch was abandoned. It's never stated but it's implied.
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"Okay, well, here's lesson number two: we help them. We work for them. We tolerate that stupid boochy-boochy baby talk. And for WHAT? So that when they go off to college, they can dump you off with some old lady who can't throw a ball without so much as breaking her HIP!" Pretty sure this counts as being abandoned.
As I said, it's never stated outright but it is implied.
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