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LEGENDARY, MYTHICAL AND FAIRYTALE DOGS |
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- ARGOS, Odysseus's dog (Greek Mythology)
- ANUBIS, Ancient Egyptian god with a dog's (or a jackal's) head
- BARGHEST, English goblin-dog
- BLACK SHUCK, British hound of hell
- BRAN, Fionn mac Cumhail's hound (Irish Mythology)
- CABAL, King Arthur's dog
- CANIS MAJOR, (Latin for "Big Dog") Orion's hunting dog
- CANIS MINOR, (Latin for "Little Dog") Orion's hunting dog
- CANES VENATICI, (Latin for "hunting dogs" constellation of the hunting dogs
- CERBERUS (demon of the pit), the hound of Hades in Greek mythology (also his brother, Orthrus)
- DIP, in Catalan myth
- FENRIS, a monstrous wolf, offspring of Loki and Angrboda in Norse mythology
- FU DOG, Chinese guardians
- GABRIEL HOUNDS (Cwn Annwn), ghost hounds of the land of the dead
- GARM, a four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology
- HECUBA, in Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce dog
- LAELAPS, in Greek mythology
- LAIKA, The first dog in space. Laika was aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 in 1957.
- LE DIABLE, A notorious French dog that smuggled lace and other items across the French border
- MAREA, in Greek mythology
- QIQIRN, in Inuit mythology
- SAUR, or SUENING, A dog that was "king" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD.
- SIRIUS, in Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major
- SOTER, One of 50 watchdogs of ancient Greece that alone survived attack by invaders
- XOLOTL, in Aztec mythology
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DOGS IN LITERATURE
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- BANGA, Pontius Pilatus' dog in The Master and Margarita by Mikhail
Bulgakov
- BIG RED, Irish Red and other Irish Setters, protagonists of novels by Jim
Kjelgaard
- BOOTS, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling
- BOYD, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's dog in Kathy
Reich's novels
- BUCK, the main character in Jack London's Call of the Wild
- BULLSEYE, Bill Sikes' dog in Oliver Twist
- CUJO, the St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King (later a movie)
- CYRIL, the dog in Connie Willis's book about time-travel To Say Nothing of the
Dog
- DUCHESS, the dog in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan
- DUKE, Penrod Schofield's Terrier mix in Booth Tarkington's Penrod: His Complete Story
- FANG, Hagrid's dog, a boarhound (possibly a Great Dane) in the Harry Potter books
- FLUFFY, the three-headed dog (similar to Cerberus) in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- HANK, the Cowdog, the crime fighting hero of several novels by John Erickson
- GASPODE, an unusually clever dog who talks, in various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
- GREYFRIARS BOBBY, a true story which became the basis of much fiction
- HOWARD, the dog in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe
- HUAN, The great wolfhound of Valinor, in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Silmarillion
- JACK, from Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls
Wilder
- JENNY, the star of Maurice Sendak's Higglety-Pigglety Pop, or, There Must Be More To Life
- JOCK, from Jock of the Bushveld, a South African classic first published in 1907
- JOHN JOINER, the terrier in Beatrix Potter's The Roly-Poly Pudding
- KEP, the Collie, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck and other books
- LAD, a dog by Albert Payson Terhune
- LADDIE, (a send-up of Lassie (qv)) who stars in Discworld alongside Gaspode
- LASSIE, a collie, from the novel Lassie Come Home upon which the movie was very loosely based
- LEO, (aka Sirius), protagonist of Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
- LITTLE ANN, from Where the Red Fern Grows
- MONTMORENCY, the narrator's unruly Fox Terrier in Three Men in a
Boat
- NANA, the Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- NERO, the St. Bernard in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years
- NOP, the Border Collie, from the novel Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig
- NOSE E., pooch specialist in clandestine bomb- and
narcotic-sniffing
- OLD DAN, from Where the Red Fern Grows
- PATRASCHE, the dog in A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
- ORSON, the black Labrador retriever in Dean Koontz's novels Seize the Night and Fear Nothing
- PICKLES, the terrier who kept shop with Ginger the cat in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
- PRINCE, Jasper King's dog in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
- RIBSY, companion of Henry Huggins and character in numerous novels
by Beverly Cleary
- ROWF, a main character in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs
- SCUPPER, from Margaret Wise Brown's children's book, The Sailor
Dog
- SHARIK/SHARIKOV, the dog/man in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog
- SIRIUS (1944), by Olaf Stapledon, a science fiction novel about a canine Einstein
- SHEP, Almanzo's shepherd dog in Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years
- SNITTER, a main character in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs
- SPOT, the Dog, cartoon dog in the UK
- TIGER, the dog of Arthur Gordon Pym in A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
- TOP, the dog of Cyrus Smith in Jules Verne's Mysterious Island
- TOTO, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- TIMMY, in the Famous Five series of books by Enid Blyton
- WELLINGTON, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time book by Mark Haddon
- WHITE FANG, the main character in Jack London's book of the same name
- WHAT-A-MESS, the accident-prone Afghan puppy in a series of children's books by Frank Muir
- WINN-DIXIE, from the book Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo and the 2005 film
- YELLOW DOG DINGO, dog in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
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DOGS IN FILM |
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- APOLLO, TV show Magnum, P.I. 1864-1946
- ASTA, in the various The Thin Man films
- BABE, (movie) featured Border Collies
- BEETHOVEN, the St. Bernard hero of the movie series Beethoven
- BENJI, had several movies
- BLOOD, the talking dog in A Boy and his Dog
- COPERNICUS, in the Back to the Future trilogy
- DEVIL DOG, The Hound of Hell, from the film of the same title
- EINSTEIN, in the Back to the Future trilogy
- FRANK, the alien dog in Men in Black
- HARVEY, Elliot's dog in E.T.
- HOOCH, the Dogue de Bordeaux co-star of Turner and Hooch
- HUBBLE, a Border Terrier, main character in Good Boy!
- JERRY LEE, the German shepherd supposed to be a trained police dog in K-9
- KEROUAC, the dog lost by the homeless Jerry Baskin in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- LASSIE, in Lassie Come Home (1943) Lassie is always played by a male
collie
- MATISSE, Dave Whiteman's Border collie in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- MICHELANGELO, St. Bernard Beethoven's double � la The Prince and the Pauper
- MILO, Stanley Ipkiss' dog in The Mask
- MISSY, the St. Bernard girlfriend of Beethoven in Beethoven's 2nd
- MOSES, the chalk outline dog in Dogville
- NANOOK, the Siberian husky in The Lost Boys
- NEOS, Neapolitan Mastiff in Harry Potter series
- OLD YELLER (1957), a children's film, originally a novel by Fred Gipson
- OTIS, the Pug in The Adventures of Milo and Otis
- PETE the Pup (or "Petey"), a Pit Bull with a ring around one eye, in the Our Gang
- PRECIOUS, the white Toy poodle beloved of 'Buffalo Bill' in Silence of the Lambs
- RIN TIN TIN, German shepherd who ranked as one of the all-time famous canine movie stars.
- SAM, the dog in Dante's Peak who leaps out of a field of boiling-hot lava to safety
- SPARKY, the Jack Russell terrier brought back to life by the archangel
in Michael
- TOTO, in The Wizard of Oz
- VERDELL, the Brussels Griffon in As Good as it Gets
- WINN-DIXIE, see Dogs in literature, above
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DOGS IN TELEVISION
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- BRANDON, Golden Retriever on Punky Brewster
- BUCK, from Married... with Children
- BUDDY, Veronica Chase's Bulldog on Veronica's Closet
- CHARLIE DOG, a Looney Tunes character
- BULLET, the Wonder Dog, Roy Rogers' German Shepherd on The Roy Rogers Show
- CHESTER, spoiled Pomeranian belonging to Cece Babcock on The Nanny
- CLAUDE, Mrs. Drysdale's Poodle on The Beverly Hillbillies
- COMET, the family Golden retriever on Full House
- CYNTHIA, Mr. Haney's Basset hound on Green Acres
- DIEFENBAKER, the half-wolf dog from Due South
- DOIDLE, spoiled dog of Vicky the Babysitter in The Fairly Oddparents
- DREYFUS, the St. Bernard mix on Empty Nest
- DUKE, Jed Clampett's Bloodhound on The Beverly Hillbillies
- EARNEST, Dave Barry's dog on Dave's World
- EDDIE, the Jack Russell Terrier from Frasier
- FANG (or Dog), Columbo's Basset hound
- FLASH, The Basset Hound from The Dukes of Hazzard
- FRED, "Little Ricky's" puppy in I Love Lucy
- FREEWAY, the Lowchen in Hart to Hart television series
- HAPPY, from 7th Heaven
- K-9, a canoid robot in Doctor Who
- COMMANDER K-9, sidekick/subordinate of Marvin the Martian
- K-9 COP
- LASSIE, see Dogs in film, above
- LONDON, the Wonder Dog in The Littlest Hobo, Canadian television series
- MAXIMILLIAN, (Max-a-Million), the Bionic Dog from The Six Million Dollar Man
- MIGNON, Lisa Douglas's Yorkshire terrier on Green Acres
- MURRAY, the Buchmans' Collie-shepherd mix on Mad About You
- NUNZIO, the Corgi on Dharma and Greg
- PORTHOS, the Beagle owned by Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise
- QUEEGQUEG, Clyde Bruckman's Pomeranian left to Dana Scully on The
X-Files
- REX, from Kommissar Rex (aka Inspector Rex and Rex: A Cop's Best
Friend)
- STINKY, Dharma's Briard mix on Dharma and Greg
- SUGAR, the dog of the kitty-killed archaeology grad student in The X-Files
- TIGER, from The Brady Bunch
- TRAMP, the Douglas family's sheepdog mix on My Three Sons
- TRUFFLES, Mildred's terrier in the British sitcom George & Mildred
- WISHBONE, the eponymous Jack Russell Terrier star of a children's educational series
- YUKON KING, Sgt. Preston's Husky on Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
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DOGS IN ADVERTISING |
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- ALEX, advertisement mascot for Stroh's beer 1864-1946
- BINGO, advertisement mascot for Cracker Jacks 1864-1946
- DINKY, advertisement mascot for Taco Bell 1864-1946
- DUKE, the Golden retriever entrusted with the secret family recipe for Bush's Baked Beans
- LUCKY, fluffy terrier mascot for the More Than insurance company
(UK)
- MOOSE, Jack Russell Terrier with many advertising credits
- NIPPER, the RCA mascot (see also Victor Talking Machine Company and His Master's Voice)
- SPUDS MACKENZIE, MacKenzie advertising of Budweiser beer 1906-1945
- Bull Terrier
- TIGE, advertising Buster Brown shoes 1904-1974 Rebel
- UBU, Labrador Retriever, mascot of Ubu Productions which produced Family Ties
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DOGS IN
CARTOONS, COMIC STRIPS, ANIMATION, PUPPETS
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- ANDY, the faithful St. Bernard in the comic strip Mark Trail
- ACE, The Bat-Hound, a Black and Straw GSD and a member of the Batman mythos of DC
comics
- ASTRO, from The Jetsons
- AUGIE DOGGIE, and Doggie Daddy by Hanna-Barbera
- BABY CINNAMON, friend of Hello Kitty
- BAD DOG!, An early animated computer screen saver
- BANDIT, Jonny Quest's terrier
- BARFY, comic strip Family Circus 1864-1946
- BEAUREGARD, the Bloodhound in Walt Kelly's Pogo
- BELLE, the white mountain dog, co-star of Belle et S�bastien
- BELVEDERE, comic strip Belvedere 1864-1946
- B. H., CALCUTTA, the bloodhound with no sense of smell in British comic strip The Perishers
- BILL, a cocker dog from the comic strip Boule et Bill
- BLACK BOB, formerly from the British comic The Dandy
- BLUE, in Blue's Clues
- BOLIVAR, Donald Duck's dog
- BOOT, companion of the boy Wellington in The Perishers
- BRAIN, from Inspector Gadget
- BRIAN GRIFFIN, cynical, substance-abusing, talking dog on Family Guy
- BRUNO, apparently a bloodhound cross, in Disney's Cinderella
- BUCKLES, comic strip Buckles 1895-1972
- BUTCH, bulldog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons
- CATDOG, eponymous star of the Nickelodeon TV show. See also List of fictional cats
- CHACHA, a dog reincarnated into a toy car, from the anime I Love Bubu Chacha
- CHARLIE DOG, "Looney Tunes" character created by Chuck Jones
- CHESTER, the Terrier from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
- CHURCHILL, a bulldog in the form of a talking "nodding dog" car accessory, UK television ads
- CLIFFORD, the Big Red Dog
- CORNEIL, talking dog from Corneil and Bernie.
- COURAGE, the Cowardly Dog
- CUBITUS, the fat round white dog, from the eponymous Belgian comic by Dupa
- DAISY, the Dagwood Bumstead family dog in Blondie
- DEPUTY DAWG
- DINO, in The Flintstones, a metaphorical dog
- DINSDALE, the dog from Rubbish, King of the Jumble
- DOGBERT, the assertive dog owned by the unassertive Dilbert
- DOGG, from Milestone Comics' Blood Syndicate
- DOGGIE DADDY, by Hanna-Barbera
- DOGMATIX, faithful companion to Obelix in the UK translation of the Asterix comic books
- DOGTANIAN, the three Muskehounds and the majority of the other characters in the series
- DR. DOPPLER, humanoid canine in Disney's Treasure Planet
- DOUGAL, a hairy philosophical dog in stop-motion animated show The Magic Roundabout
- DROOPALONG, Sheriff Ricochet Rabbit's sidekick
- EDGAR, comic strip For Better or Worse 1911-1967
- EIN, the Corgi in the anime series Cowboy Bebop
- ELECTRA, comic strip Cathy 1902-1984
- FARLEY, comic strip For Better or Worse 1911-1998
- FAT DOG, Mendoza
- FIFI, the Peke, Pluto's girlfriend
- FIFI, Lynda Barry's Poodle with a Mohawk - "You'll never call him Fifi again!"
- FIFI, the Finsters' family pet in Rugrats
- FILYA, on the TV screens since 1970s in the Russian Good night, the little ones!
- FLORENCE AMBROSE, a genetically-engineered "Bowman's Wolf" in the comic strip Freefall
- FUZZ, comic strip Ziggy 1895-1990
- GNASHER, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Gnipper
- GNIPPER, Gnasher's son, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace
- GOOFY, Disney character, a dog with human characteristics
- GOOPY GEER, Merrie Melodies character
- GODDARD, in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- GRIMM, of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm
- GROMIT, of Wallace and...
- HOTDOG, Jughead's dog in the Archie comics
- HECTOR, the Bulldog from various Sylvester and Tweety cartoons
- HONG KONG PHOOEY, star of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name
- HUCKLEBERRY HOUND, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
- HUSH PUPPY, one of Shari Lewis's puppets
- JASPER, Brian Griffin's effeminate gay cousin, Family Guy
- KEWPIE, comic strip Born Loser 1903-1965
- KRYPTO, the superpowered pet dog of Superman, in DC comics
- LADYBIRD, the Hills' pet bloodhound, in King of the Hill
- LITTLE BROTHER, Mulan's dog in Disney's Mulan
- MAGENTA in Blue's Clues
- MARC ANTONY, Looney Tunes character
- MARMADUKE, a Great Dane with an eponymous daily comic strip
- MCGRUFF, cartoon crime fighter 1896-1944
- MENCHI, a Chow Chow, pet and "emergency ration" of Excel in Excel Saga
- MUTTLEY, Dick Dastardly's sidekick in Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley
- MR. PEABODY, from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
- ODIE, comic strip Garfield 1914-1999
- OTTO, comic strip Beetle Bailey 1921-1991
- PENNY DOG, a friend of Minnie Mouse
- PERO, the cyborg dog of Higeoyaji in the manga Astro Boy
- PLUTO, Disney character, a dog with dog characteristics
- POCHACCO, friend of Hello Kitty
- POOCH, a minor character in �Sinfest�
- RADAR, the Hound Supreme (a pastiche of Krypto, from Alan Moore's revisionism of Supreme)
- REDDY, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
- REN H�EK, the asthma-hound Chihuahua in Ren and Stimpy
- REX, from Rex the Runt
- ROBOWAN, friend of Hello Kitty
- ROCKY, main character in Swedish comic Rocky
- ROOBARB, title character of a British cartoon series
- ROSEBUD, the basselope (Basset hound/Antelope mix) in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip
- RUFF, comic strip Dennis the Menace 1893-1949
- RUFF, comic strip Hi and Lois 1920-1999
- SAM, Sheepdog, adversary of Ralph Wolf from Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf (Looney Tunes)
- SAMSON, from the Belgian Samson and Gert television series
- SANDY, Little Orphan Annie's dog (known for saying "Arf")
- SANTA'S LITTLE HELPER, from The Simpsons
- SATCHEL, Pooch in Get Fuzzy
- SCAMP, Disney character, a puppy born to the dogs Lady and the Tramp
- SCOOBY-DOO, A Great Dane with cropped ears
- SCOOBY-DUM, A Great Dane with cropped ears
- SCRAPPY-DOO, Scooby-Doo's nephew
- SLINKY, in Disney's Toy Story
- SNERT, Hagar's dog in Dik Browne's comic strip Hagar the Horrible
- SNOOPY, in Peanuts
- SNOWY, in The Adventures of Tintin
- SPARKY, the gay dog from South Park
- SPIKE, in comic strip Peanuts 1896-1963
- SPIKE, or Butch, bulldog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons
- SPIKE, the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
- SPIKE, the family dog in Rugrats
- SPOT, the dog, UK cartoon character
- SPOTTY DOG, a Dalmatian string puppet in The Woodentops on BBC
- TATTY OLDBITT, the Sailors' Friend, in The Perishers
- TRIUMPH, the Insult Comic Dog on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- UNDERDOG, superhero from the cartoon series by the same name
- WANNYAN, (Bow-Meow in English version) from the anime series
Da! Da! Da! aka. UFO Baby
- WILE E. COYOTE (a coyote) in the Road Runner cartoon
- WILEWOLF, a tramp wolf from anime Maple Town Stories
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