List of fictional dogs

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This list of fictional dogs is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. It is restricted to dog characters from notable fictional works. For real/famous dogs, see List of dogs. For mythological dogs, see Mythological dogs.

Dogs in literature

Main article: List of fictional dogs in literature

• Addison, Burke Stodger's dog, who spent too much time watching George Sanders films, in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
• Almondine, Edgar's dog, in David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
• Angelo in Angelo's Journey by Leland Dirks.
• Argos, the faithful dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey
• Baleia, character in the book Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos
• Bam Bam, canine friend of Randolph in J. F. Englert's A Dog About Town novels
• Banga, Pontius Pilate's dog in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita (named after the nickname of the author's second wife).
• Baree, son of Gray Wolf and Kazan, in James Curwood's 1917 novel Baree, Son of Kazan
• Bella, dog belonging to the Cromwell family when Thomas is a boy, in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
• Bendicò, great-dane belonging to the central character Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
• Big Red, the Irish Setter in Jim Kjelgaard's famous novel Big Red.
• Blanche, one of King Lear's dogs
• Blitzee, the daughters' dog in Alice Munro's story "Gravel"
• Blood, the main character's dog in the book A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
• Blue, the dog belonging to Dilsey's house in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
• Bob, the title character in Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness
• Boots, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling
• Bowser the Hound, in the stories of Thornton Burgess
• Buck, the main character in Jack London's Call of the Wild
• Bulls-eye, Bill Sikes' dog in Oliver Twist
• Buster, Scottish Terrier belonging to Frederick Algernon Trotteville ("Fatty") in Enid Blyton's "Five Find-Outers" series of children's mystery novels
• Cafall, a dog belonging to King Arthur (occasionally spelled "Cabal")
• Candy's dog, in John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men"
• Carl, from the "Good dog, Carl" children's book series
• Cerberus from Greek Mythology, the three-headed hellhound of Hades
• Ceril, the hellhound from Eva Ibbotson's The Haunting of Hiram
• Chance, the American bulldog mix from "The Long Journey", otherwise known as "Homeward Bound"
• Chief from The Fox and the Hound
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Copper from The Fox and the Hound
• Crab, "the sourest natured dog that lives" in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Cujo the St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King (later a film)
• Dan, the hound belonging to the Compson house in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
• Dingo, in Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
• Dingus, in Dingus Dreaming and The Canine Condition by Alex A. Vardamis
• Diogenes, canine friend of Paul Dombey and later his sister Florence in Dickens's Dombey and Son
• Disreputable Dog, in Garth Nix's Lirael and Abhorsen
• Doberman Pinscher belonging to the Gallagher family who catalyzes the introduction of Holden Caufield and Jane Gallagher in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
• Dog, the hellhound from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• The dog of tears who accompanies the doctor's wife in Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Dog that did nothing in the night-time, unnamed, this "curious incident" providing a clue in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was later referenced in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Dragon, a Briard, accuses (attacks) the murderer of his owner, Aubry De Montdidier, and both are sentenced by Charles V of France to trial by combat. The dog wins. Dramatized in The Dog of Montarges.
• Duchess, the dog who thought she swallowed a patty pan, in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
• Einstein, the golden retriever in Dean Koontz's book Watchers
• Elroy, Joe's playful dog in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods
• Eos, a beautiful white dog in Funeral Games by Mary Renault
• Enzo, narrator of the novel The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Fang, Grip and Wolf. Farmer Maggot's guard dogs in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Fang, Hagrid's dog, a boar-hound (a Mastiff) in the Harry Potter books: (in the films, Fang is a Neapolitan Mastiff)
• Fidele in Gogol's Diary of a Madman
• Fido, from Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann Stories
• Flossie, from D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Fluke, the title character in Fluke by James Herbert
• Fluffy, the three-headed dog (similar to Cerberus) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Fly, the collie that befriends Babe the piglet in Dick King-Smith's The Sheep-Pig, the basis for the film Babe
• Garm, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham
• Garryowen, the Citizen's dog in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Gaspode, an unusually clever dog that talks, in various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
• Gator, the greyhound in "A Greyhound's Tale: Running for Glory, Walking for Home"
• Ginger, the genius dog of Nadia Diamondstein in E. L. Konigsburg's The View from Saturday
• Ginger Pye, the dog of the Pyes in the book Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• Gnaish, the wild dog in Thunder Oak
• Go Go Girl, from Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• Golly from Superkids
• Grace, a Basset Hound adopted by American Girl character Kit Kittredge in the Kit Kittredge book sub-series and film adaptation.
• Grizzle, Elizabeth Dalloway's dog in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway
• Haman, Yasha's the Magician's dog in Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel The Magician of Lublin
• Hank, a cowdog in the Hank the Cowdog series by John R. Erickson
• Harold, Howie, Dawg, Hamlet, Georgia, Linda and Bob, dogs that appear in theBunnicula books by James Howe
• Hound, the Penderwicks dog in The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
• "Hound of the Baskervilles (The)", a Sherlock Holmes tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with the famous line, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
• Huan, The great wolfhound of Valinor, friend and helper of Beren and Lúthien, in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Silmarillion
• Irving from Barbapapa by Anette Tison / Talus Taylor
• Hundred and One Dalmatians (The) by Dodie Smith, subsequently made into a film by Walt Disney. Later also adapted as a live-action film and as a stage musical
• Jack from Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Jack from The Last Dog on Earth
• Jack Russell from the "Jack Russell: Dog Detective" series by Darrel and Sally Odgers
• Jake from the Jake the Dog books
• Jake from the Adventure Time t.v. series
• Jasper, Max de Winter's spaniel at Manderley in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
• Jennie, the star of Maurice Sendak's Higglety-Pigglety Pop, or, There Must Be More To Life
• Jerry, eponymous hero of Jack London's Jerry, Dog of the Islands
• Jerry, a.k.a. "Thorpe", of Gay Wines of Raleigh
• Jip, the lapdog of Dora Spenlow, David Copperfield's first wife (Charles Dickens)
• Jess, Border Collie belonging to Jenny Miles and hero of the 'Jess the Border Collie' series by Lucy Daniels
• Jip, one of Doctor Doolittle's animal companions in the books by Hugh Lofting
• John, a bulldog, "Mike's inseparable companion" in P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith in the City
• John Joiner, the terrier who rescued Tom Kitten from being made into a pudding by rats in Beatrix Potter's The Roly-Poly Pudding
• Juno, from The Swiss Family Robinson
• Kashtanka, the main character in Anton Chekhov's short story of the same name
• Kazak, the hound of space, from The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Kazakh, Selena Macintosh's seeing eye dog in Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• Kazan, the wolf dog in James Oliver Curwood's 1914 novel "Kazan the Wolfdog"
• Kep, the Collie, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck and other books
• Kiche, mother of White Fang, see below
• Lad, a rough collie in Albert Payson Terhune's novels, starting with Lad, A Dog which was later adapted into a feature film
• Laddie (a send-up of Lassie (qv)) who stars in Discworld alongside Gaspode
• Laika, Stas's dog in Martin Cruz Smith's third Arkady Renko novel. Red Square, named after Laika, the first dog in space, highly trained to be sent to certain death in orbit.
• Lara from the Spy Dog series by Andrew Cope
• Laska in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
• Lassie, a collie, from Eric Knight's novel Lassie Come Home upon which the film was very loosely based
• The Learned English Dog (LED) in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
• Lion, Henry Gowan's large and noble dog in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit
• Loony, the mischievous black spaniel belonging to Snubby in Enid Blyton's Barney Mystery series of mystery novels
• Luath, the Labrador Retriever from The Incredible Journey
• Luther, the dog that could smell heaven, from Matt Ruff's Fool on the Hill
• Mackintosh, Aunt Agatha's West Highland Terrier in "P. G. Wodehouse"'s novels, "Jeeves & Wooster" (also a TV series)
• Madgie in Gogol's Diary of a Madman
• The "mastiff bitch" in Coleridge's Christabel that howls as Geraldine enters the castle
• McDuff, a West Highland White Terrier in Rosemary Wells' McDuff children's book series
• Mildred, Shasta Fay Hepworth's dog in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
• Missis, a Dalmatian in Dodie Smith's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Manchee, a loyal Labrador from Patrick Ness's novel "The Knife of Never Letting Go"
• Molly, the rust colored dog who eventually returns from an alternate universe as Fred Durst in David Wong's John Dies at the End
• Montmorency from Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.
• Mouse, Harry's dog in The Dresden Files
• Mr. Bones, stray dog and narrator of Paul Auster's Timbuktu, later renamed Sparky/Sparkatus
• Nana, the Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• Nero, the St. Bernard who comes to live with the Wilders in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years
• Nick Carraway's dog that ran away in The Great Gatsby
• O'Connor in Watt by Samuel Beckett
• Old Dan and Little Ann are Red Tick Hounds from Where the Red Fern Grows
• Olive, the Other Reindeer, from the book by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Siebold, subsequently in the television special produced by Matt Groening
• Orson, the black Labrador retriever of Chris Snow in Dean Koontz's novels Seize the Night and Fear Nothing
• Otis, the robot dog from Tanith Lee's novel Indigara
• "Padfoot", or the nickname commonly referring to Sirius Black's animagus dog form in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling
• Pansy, the mastiff in the Burke novels by Andrew Vachss
• Patrsche, the title character in A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
• Pearl the Wonder Dog, the pointer in the Spenser series by Robert Parker.
• Pepper, the faithful bull-mastiff of the unnamed protagonist in William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland
• Perdita, the adult female dalmatian in 101 Dalmatians
• Perezvon, another name for Zhucka (see below)
• Petula, the pug from the Molly Moon series.
• Pickles, the terrier that kept shop with Ginger the cat in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
• Piggy in Gone to the Dogs
• Pilot, Mr. Rochester's dog from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
• The Poky Little Puppy of the children's book written by Janette Sebring Lowry and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
• Pippin, from the Pippin and Mabel series of picture books by K.V. Johansen
• Pompey, title character of The History of Pompey the Little; or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-dog (1751) by Francis Coventry
• Pongo, a Dalmatian in Dodie Smith's novel 101 Dalmatians
• Preacher, son of Jack Russell and Jill Russell from the "Jack Russell: Dog Detective" series by Darrel and Sally Odgers
• Prince Terrien, Leslie Burke's (and the Burke parents') dog in the novel and 2007 film, Bridge to Terabithia
• Pugnax, a literate mutt that is the associate of the Chums of Chance in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
• Rab, from the short story "Rab and his Friends" (1859) by John Brown
• Ralph the famous blue dog living in North Tonawanda, NY
• Ralph Touchett's unnamed terrier in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady
• Randolph, the Labrador retriever narrator and Chinese takeout aficionado, in J.F. Englert's literary, comedy, mystery novels "A Dog About Town", "A Dog Among Diplomats", and "A Dog At Sea"
• Ribsy, companion of Henry Huggins and character in numerous novels for young readers by Beverly Cleary
• Rontu, from Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Rowf, a black mongrel, one of the heroes of The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
• Roy, Professor Presbury's wolfhound, attacks the professor at intervals thus providing a clue in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Creeping Man by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Rover Rob * "The Life of a Pirate Dog with young Grace O'Malley - Juvenile Historical Fiction"
• Ryan, a character that appears in Aaron E. Kates' novel "Pet Smart" is a Golden retriever with the slogan "007" (similar to James Bond) on the tag of his collar
• Rumbo, a man reincarnated as a red setter (and subsequently as a red squirrel) in Fluke by James Herbert
• Sammy (Samson), a dog belonging to Downer, one of the house masters in P.G. Wodehouse's Mike and Psmith
• Samur, the dog belonging to Bjartur's father-in-law in Halldór Laxness's Independent People
• Scamper, golden spaniel belonging to Peter and Janet in Enid Blyton's Secret Seven series of young children's mystery novels
• Scraps, a dog 'improved upon' using (or perhaps constructed from) other dogs' biological spare parts by an Igor in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Searchlight, the heroic sled-dog that pulled Little Willy's sled in the short novel Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
• Sharik, the stray dog in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel Heart of a Dog who takes human form after a human pituitary gland and testicles were implanted into his body
• Shiloh, the dog saved from his abusive owner in the book of the same name, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Skylar, the Jack Russell terrier in Matt Burgess' picture book Skylar and George Washington who is based on Matt's real dog named Skylar
• Slinkster Dog, from Weetzie Bat by "Francesca Lia Block"
• Sirius, eponymous hero of the science fiction novel by Olaf Stapleton, the result of an experiment to produce a dog with something like human intelligence
• Snitter, a fox terrier one of the heroes of The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
• Snowy, Tintin's Wire Fox Terrier in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin
• Snuff, companion to Jack the Ripper and narrator of Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October
• Specs, the guide dog in "A Labrador's Tale: An Eye for Heroism"
• Spud from the Spy Pups series by Andrew Cope
• Spot the Dog, series of books latterly adapted for TV by Eric Hill
• Squirrel,the border collie in Ann M. Martin's "A Dog's Life" who is later called Addie
• Star from the Spy Pups series by Andrew Cope
• Sweetheart, one of King Lear's dogs
• Sweatheart from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
• The dogs of The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter: Bob the Retriever; Gypsy; Pirate and Postboy the Greyhounds; Stumpy; Timothy Gyp the Sheepdog; and Tipkins
• The unnamed narrator of Franz Kafka's short story, Investigations of a Dog (1922)
• The unnamed pack of dogs in Warriors: A Dangerous Path
• Thor, German Shepherd in the horror novel of the same name. It was eventually made into a film called Bad Moon
• Thunderbolt, German Shepherd Dog from 101 DalmatiansII
• Tiger, the dog belonging to the title character in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe and its sequel, An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne
• Tim Johnson, the rabid dog shot by Atticus Finch in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Timoleon Vieta, from Dan Rhodes' Timoleon Vieta Come Home
• Timothy / Timmy / Tim (all three names are found interchangeably), George Kirrin's mongrel in Enid Blyton's Famous Five series of children's adventure novels
• Titla, Bjartur of Summerhouse's dog in Halldór Laxness's Independent People
• Toby, the dog used by Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Top, the dog of Cyrus Smith in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island
• Toto in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Toto, the schoolmaster Monsieur Verdier's mongrel dog in Rose Tremain's Trespass
• Tock, the "watchdog" (the name is a pun, because the dog has a large clock on his side) from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Trezórka, the dog that belongs to Butler's company in Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
• Trey, one of King Lear's dogs
• Tricki Woo, Mrs. Pumphrey's pekingese in If only they could talk (Book title in UK. All creatures great and small in the U.S.) by James Herriot
• Trump. Daughter of Jack Russell and Jill Russell from the "Jack Russell: Dog Detective" series by Darrel and Sally Odgers. Narrator of the "Pet Vet" series.
• Tulip, from My Dog Tulip, by J.R. Ackerley
• Ugolina, malevolent and spooky prowler of pre-War Lisbon, in Jose Saramago's novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
• Unnamed dog Tom Buchanan buys Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby
• Valetka, in Turgenev's story "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife"
• Walter, in "Walter the Farting Dog"
• What-a-Mess, Afghan Hound puppy in the Frank Muir stories
• White Fang, the main character in Jack London's book of the same name
• Vinnie, French bulldog who lives with prosecutor Samantha Kincaid in the series by Alafair Burke
• Waghya, although asserted by some sources to have been an real historical dog, has been asserted to be a fictional character from a Marathi play Rajasanyas written by Ram Ganesh Gadkari in other sources. One of the most famous dogs in India.
• Weenie, from the "Eloise" books
• Wellington, Mrs. Shear's dog from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Wiggins, the heroine Maria's dog in The Little White Horse
• Winn-Dixie, from the book Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo and the 2005 film of the same name
• Yellow Dog Dingo, dog in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
• Zelda Van Gutters, the "roving reporter" of Nickelodeon Magazine
• Zhucka in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov

Dogs in film

Main article: List of fictional dogs in film

• Andrew, the family dog from Mary Poppins
• Annabelle, the whippet from heaven in All Dogs go to Heaven
• Arrow, featured in Harry Nilsson's The Point! (1971 film, 1977 and 1991 musicals)
• Arthur, dog owned by ex-lawyer fisherman Steve Myers in the film The Man Who Sued God
• Asta, the dog of Nick & Nora Charles, in the various Thin Man films
• Babycakes, from Beethoven's 5th
• Baleia, tragic heroine of the 1963 Brazilian classic Vidas Secas (based on the book of the same name). The dog actress, Piaba, was celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival amidst controversy over the dog's (simulated) death scene.
• Balto, from Balto
• Baxter, Ron Burgundy's beloved dog in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
• Beauty and Beast, from The Hills Have Eyes film series
• Beethoven, the St. Bernard hero of the Beethoven film series.
• Benji, star of several films
• Betsey, from Bowfinger
• Bingo from the film of the same name Bingo
• Blood, the main character's dog in the film A Boy and His Dog, voiced by Tim McIntire.
• Bolt, superhero dog from the 2008 Disney film of the same name.
• Boomer, from Independence Day
• Brandy, from First Kid
• Bruiser from Legally Blonde
• Buckley, Ari and Uzi's hound dog from The Royal Tenenbaums which survives a plane crash, and later faces further tribulations.
• Buckshot, Ulee's (Peter Fonda) hound dog in "Ulee's Gold"
• Butler, Captain James T. Kirk's Great Dane from Star Trek Generations
• Buddy, the dog from the Air Bud film series.
• Buster, from The Bodyguard
• Buster, from Monkeybone
• Camille, Rottweiler employee of the Hammerhead that is trained to go for the groin from Barb Wire
• Camille, The vet's collie & mother of Hooch's pups from Turner & Hooch
• Carface, from All Dogs Go to Heaven
• The film Cats & Dogs postulates an ongoing war dating back to ancient times between cats and dogs. The main character, a beagle named Lou, is voiced by Tobey Maguire
• Chance, from the film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, voiced by Michael J. Fox.
• Charlie B. Barkin from All Dogs Go To Heaven
• Charlie, from Joe Dirt
• Charlie 2, from Joe Dirt
• Cerberus, greyhound in 2004 comedy Man About Dog
• Cherokee, Sydney Prescott's golden retriever from Scream 3
• Chestnut. Great Dane [chestnut]
• Chloe from Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Cho Cho, from The Karate Dog
• Churchill from The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
• Cody, the three legged dog from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which is left behind by the pirates, adopted by team Zissou, and later returned.
• Devil, Phantom's dog in the Phantom comic strip
• Digby, from the "Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World"
• Diggs, the German shepherd from "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore"
• Dinky, Aunt Edna's dog from "National Lampoon's Vacation"
• Dixie, from The Fox and the Hound 2
• Dogmatix, Obelix's dog from the Asterix and Obelix comic series
• Dog, Big Jake's dog in 'Big Jake" starring John Wayne (1971)
• Dog, Max's dog in Mad Max 2, an Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler
• Eight Below
  • Buck
  • Dewey
  • Maya
  • Max
  • Old Jack
  • Shadowz
  • Shorty
  • Truman Capote
• Dolly Martin from Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
• Dug, a talking dog from Up
• Duke, from The Swiss Family Robinson
• Edison, from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Einstein, Doc Brown's sheepdog in Back to the Future
• Falcor - not quite a dog, but the Luck Dragon for The Never Ending Story
• Fang, from Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
• Fluffy, in Gold Diggers of 1933
• Frank the Pug, the alien dog in Men in Black
• Fred, Cledus "Snowman" Snow's dog from Smokey and the Bandit
• The many dog stars of Good Boy!, including the main character, Hubble, a Border Terrier, voiced by Matthew Broderick.
• The many dog stars of The Doberman Gang
• The many dog stars of Hotel for Dogs
• George in Bringing Up Baby, played by Asta (see this list, above).
• George, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Goober, from So Long Goober
• Grunt, the red nose American Pit Bull Terrier, portrayed by "Bama Red" in Flash Dance
• Hachi, from "Hachi: A Dog's Tale"
• Henry, from Heart Condition
• Hercules, the baseball-eating mastiff from The Sandlot
• Hooch, the Dogue de Bordeaux costar of Turner & Hooch
• Itchy, from Scorched
• Itchy, from All Dogs Go to Heaven
• Jack from Lost & Found
• Jenna from Balto
• Jackal from Dude, Where's My Car?
• Jed, the Norwegen husky from John Carpenter's The Thing (though not officially the character's name, the dog is universally referred to as "Jed" by fans of the film and those who worked on the film. Jed was the name of the wolf-dog who played him).
• Jelly from Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
• Jerry Lee, the German Shepherd police dog in K-9
• Jojo, from Torque
• Kerouac, the dog lost by the homeless Jerry Baskin in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Lassie Come Home (1943), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall, a genius heroine dog, saving people from villains and natural threats in many sequels and also a television show. Lassie is always played by a male collie.
• Killer, Scarface's dog who died. Half Baked
• Killer, Carface's assistant in All Dogs Go to Heaven
• Kitty, from The Stupids
• Kiwi, from Code Lyoko
• Lady and the Tramp in Lady and the Tramp
• Le Chien aka Bombon in Bombon el perro
• Lenny, from the film, Lenny the Wonder Dog
• Leslie from Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
• Lou, Schtulman's dog from Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
• Louie, Cedric's and Mr. Big's sidekick from Meet the Feebles
• Luca, from FOX's Garfield: The Movie
• Lucky, from Dr. Dolittle
• Lucky, from Knight Rider
• Marie, the Dachshund from The Shrink Is In
• Marit, Mette Harrison's Black Lab in The Princess and the Hound
• Marley, from Marley and Me
• Matisse, Dave Whiteman's Border collie in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Michelangelo, St. Bernard Beethoven's double à la The Prince and the Pauper in Beethoven's 4th
• Milo, Stanley Ipkiss' Jack Russell Terrier in The Mask
• Missy, the St. Bernard girlfriend of Beethoven in Beethoven's 2nd
• Mojo, chihuahua in a leg cast from Transformers
• Moses, Bernie and Roz Focker's dog in Meet the Fockers
• Moses, the town dog in Dogville, visually represented by its painted outline
• Moti, the faithful dogs who takes revenge with the vallians who kills his master in Teri Meharbania starring Jakie Shroff and Poonam Dhillon
• Mr. Atlas, in Topper Takes a Trip, played by Asta (see this list, above).
• Mr. Beefy, the talking bulldog in Little Nicky
• Mr. Smith, the dog who belongs to Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, in The Awful Truth, played by Asta (see this list, above)
• Muffin from Screwed
• Nana from Disney's "Peter Pan"
• Nanook and Thorn from The Lost Boys
• Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
• Odie, a dog from FOX's Garfield: The Movie, and its sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
• Old Yeller (1957), a family film by Disney, originally a novel by Fred Gipson
• Otis, the Pug in The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• Otis, from Son of the Mask
• Oliver, from The 6th Day
• Pac-Man, the vampire pomeranian in Blade: Trinity
• Pete the Pup (or "Petey"), a Pit Bull with a ring around one eye, in the Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) shorts produced by Hal Roach and later, MGM. A number of dogs played the role.
• Polly PureBred, from Disney's version of Underdog in 2007
• Porthos, the dog owned by James Barrie in Finding Neverland
• Precious, the white Toy poodle beloved of 'Buffalo Bill' in The Silence of the Lambs
• Prince, the nervous Edwards family dog in The Searchers
• Quark, from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• Quill, from Quill
• Red, the dog that gets killed in the film Red
• Rexxx/Dewy, from Firehouse Dog
• Riff Raff, from Underdog
• Rimshot, Ernest P. Worrell's dog in Ernest Goes to Jail and Ernest Scared Stupid
• Rita, from Oliver and Company
• Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd found in a trench by an American soldier, has appeared in films since 1922. All subsequent dogs in the part have been descendants of the original. Also on television
• Reno, from the film Top Dog starring Chuck Norris
• Rambo, Captain Felix Maxwell's dog in Mannequin
• Russell, from Celtic Pride
• Romeo from Roadside Romeo
• Samantha, from the film I Am Legend starring Will Smith
• Sam, from the film Lethal Weapon starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
• Sasha Le Fleur from All Dogs go to Heaven
• Sasha, from The Last Shot
• Scrappy & Coco, dogs Zohan befriends and the names of whom he uses for his New York alias, "Scrappy Coco" in You Don't Mess with the Zohan
• Scraps, from The Corpse Bride
• Shadow, from the film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, voiced by Don Ameche.
• The Shaggy Dog
• Shithead, from the film The Jerk starring Steve Martin
• Shoeshine or Shoe Shine Boy from Disney's version of Underdog in 2007
• Skip, Jack Russell terrier featured in the film My Dog Skip adapted from the book My Dog Skip by Willie Morris
• Snot, repulsive dog of Cousin Edward "Eddie" Johnson (Randy Quaid) in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• Snow Dogs
  • Nana
  • Demon
  • Mac
  • Scooper
  • Diesel
  • Ralph
  • Sniff
  • Yodel
  • Dutchess
• Snowy, Tintin's dog from the Tintin comic series (Milou in the original French).
• Soda, from Sony's Daddy Day Care in 2003
• Snow Buddies
  • Shasta
  • Budderball
  • B-Dawg
  • Mud Bud
  • Buhdda
  • Rosebud
  • Truman Capote
• Speck, Pee-Wee Herman's dog, from Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Spike, from Disney's The Game Plan
• Spot from See Spot Run
• Toto from MGM's 1939 version The Wizard of Oz
• Taffy, the family pet in Hum Aapke Hain Koun
• Thor the dog from Bad Moon
• Tripod, a three-legged dog, and Russ' dog Chester from Disney's The Kid
• Turk, from The Swiss Family Robinson
• Tyco from Life Is Ruff
• Underdog (TV series), superhero based on the cartoon TV series by the same name
• Verdell, the Brussels Griffon in As Good as It Gets
• Waffles, Mary's (Diane Keaton) dachshund in "Manhattan"
• William ("Willie") - Dog belonging to General George Patton in the film "Patton"
• Winn-Dixie, see Dogs in literature, above
• Wondermutt from the film Summer School
• Yellow, a lab from Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
• Yellow Dog from the Chevy Chase film Funny Farm
• Zero, Jack's ghost dog from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Dogs in television

Gidget, The Taco Bell spokes-dog and mascot from the mid to late 90's

Main article: List of fictional dogs in television

Character Name	Show	Notes
Taco Bell chihuahua	Taco Bell Commercials	(02/94-07/09) voiced by Carlos Alazraqui "Yo quiero Taco Bell", a mascot used by Taco Bell, a division of Yum! Brands. The Chihuahua is a breed commonly associated with Mexico, as are the tacos the restaurant serves. The original dog cast for the lead role was named Dinky, but was replaced shortly thereafter by Gidget. Taco was another Chihuahua and acted as a stand-in for Gidget.
Vincent	Lost	Vincent is Walt's yellow Labrador retriever, who is originally owned by Walt's stepfather, Brian Porter. He is left behind on the Island when Michael and Walt leave. He is given to Shannon by Walt and remains under her care until she is killed. He is later seen accompanying Sun. After the timeshifts and an attack on the survivors, Vincent ends up with Rose and Bernard in 1974. All three make a new home in the jungle and are found three years later by Sawyer, Juliet and Kate. Vincent is the only confirmed survivor on Lost. He is last seen at Jack's side as Jack dies of his wounds.
Wishbone	Wishbone	A well-read dog who sees parallels between classic literature and the dilemmas he and his human friends face every day. Wishbone is a male tri-color Jack Russell Terrier (white with brown and black markings), who lives with the Talbots at their home on Forest Avenue in Oakdale. In his normal contemporary life, none of the humans can hear Wishbone speak, though the audience can. He seems to be under the impression that humans would hear him if they just paid attention and he often bemoans the fact that they do not do so. In the classic literature stories he imagines himself in, humans can hear him and they apparently perceive him as a human. He is portrayed by

Dogs in animation and puppetry

Main article: List of fictional dogs in animation

• Agent D on Phineas and Ferb
• Alexander, Nina Tucker's dog FullMetal Alchemist
• Akamaru, Kiba Inuzuka's dog from the manga and anime Naruto
• Andrew, Bertrand, and Calvin, from the Merrie Melodies cartoon Dog Tales
• Angesis McBarker, Mr. Magoo's dog
• Antoinette, Tamaki's dog in Ouran High School Host Club
• Baby Cinnamon, friend of Hello Kitty
• Barkley, a Muppet character on Sesame Street
• Bartholomew, Orel's dog from Moral Orel
• Beck, Ryûsuke Minami's dog from BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
• Belle, title character of the animated series Belle and Sebastian (and the original French novel Belle et Sébastien)
• Belvedere, the Colonel's bulldog from the 1950 Merrie Melodies cartoon Dog Gone South
• Binky Barnes, an anthropomorphized bull dog that plays on the TV series Arthur
• Black Hayate, Riza Hawkeye's dog in the manga and anime Fullmetal Alchemist
• Blue, a female wolf-dog who can take on a human appearance in the anime and manga Wolf's Rain
• Blue, Green Puppy, and Magenta on Nick Juinor's Blue's Clues
• Bolivar, Donald Duck's dog
• Brain, from the Inspector Gadget series
• Brandy Harrington, a main character from Brandy and Mr. Whiskers.
• Brian Griffin, cynical, substance-abusing, talking dog on Family Guy
• Bob, the neighborhood's mean (and constantly barking) dog on PBS's Martha Speaks
• Bruno, apparently a bloodhound cross, in Disney's Cinderella
• Bruno, apparently a Basset Hound cross, in The Triplets of Belleville
• Bubble Puppy, from Bubble Guppies
• Butch the Bulldog
• Buttons from the animated series Animaniacs
• Canine, family dog on Nickelodeon's Glenn Martin, DDS
• CatDog, eponymous star of the Nickelodeon TV show. See also List of fictional cats
• Charkie, Steve and Betsy's very active and not-so-obedient black cocker spaniel on PBS's Curious George'
• Charlie B. Barkin From All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
• Charlie Dog, Looney Tunes character created by Chuck Jones
• Checkers Hibiki, from the anime Ranma ½
• Cherry, Minami's dog from Lucky Star
• Chief, from The Fox and the Hound
• Chopper, large white bulldog that befriended and protected Yakky Doodle from The Yogi Bear Show
• Chomper, a mechanical watchdog built by Mushmouse on the animated TV series named Punkinpuss and Mushmouse.
• Colonel White Flower in Jack King's Alabama Slammer
• Commander K-9, sidekick/subordinate of Marvin the Martian
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Daisy, the Dagwood Bumstead family dog in Blondie
• Den, Winry Rockbell's dog in the manga and anime FullMetal Alchemist
• Deputy Dawg
• Dinah the Dachshund
• Dogtanian, from Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
• Doidle, spoiled dog of Vicky in The Fairly OddParents.
• Dollar, the Rich family dog from the Richie Rich series who is a "Dollarmatian" (like a Dalmatian, but with dollar signs instead of spots)
• Domo, Kaz Harada's pet dog in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
• Dr. Doppler, humanoid canine in Disney's Treasure Planet
• Droopy, from cartoons created by Tex Avery for MGM
• Dug, from the 2009 film Up
• Dudley, from T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Dukey, genetically enhanced dog from Johnny Test

Dynomutt,Dog Wonder, a bumbling yet generally effective robot dog, his show shared hour with Scooby Doo in 1976-77; 2009–present - Has own show on Boomerang

• Ein the corgi in the anime series Cowboy Bebop
• Einstein, Doc Brown's dog in Back to the Future
• Elektra, the dog of Cathy
• Estelle, an abandoned dog on PBS's Martha Speaks
• Eugene the Jeep, "The Jeep's a magical dog and can disappear and things." Of Popeye
• The Family Dog
• Farfel the Dog, ventriloquist puppet and Nestle advertising icon
• Fauntleroy, the dog babysat by Peter Fox in Bill Amend's cartoon FoxTrot
• Fetch, from Histeria!
• Fifi the Peke, Pluto's girlfriend
• Fifi from Moshi Monsters.
• Fifi, the Finsters' family pet in Rugrats starting in 2001 and the films by Paramount Pictures in 2000 and 2003
• Fu Dog in American Dragon: Jake Long
• Fussy, a dog that adopted by Francine in American Dad!
• Gin, a silver tora-ge (brindle) Akita Inu who fights the bear, Akakabuto in Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
• Gir, a cute, malfunctioning, cyan-eyed SIR unit, diguised as a small green dog to blend in with the natives of Earth. His master is Zim, an alien invader aspiring to conquer planets to make up for his past mistakes. Consequently, Gir is insane and Zim is very, very bad at his job. Both appear in the animated show Invader Zim, which was cancelled on January 2002.
• Goliath (fictional dog), dog with audible thoughts, companion dog to Davey in Davey and Goliath
• Goofy, Disney character, a dog with human characteristics
• Goopy Geer, Merrie Melodies character
• Goddard, a robotic dog in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Griswald, Officer Dibble's hard-to-outwit canine patrol partner on one episode (Griswald) of Top Cat.
• Gromit, of Wallace and Gromit from Nick Park's Aardman Animations claymation films
• Gnasher, of Dennis the Menace, a comic and television program.
• Hanna Barbera
  • Astro from Hanna-Barbera's The Jetsons
  • Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy by Hanna-Barbera
  • Bandit, Jonny Quest's bulldog
  • Big Dog & Little Dog, from 2 Stupid Dogs, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series in 1993.
  • Cooler, leader of the Pound Puppies
  • Dino in Hanna Barbera's The Flintstones series, a metaphorical dog (biologically a dinosaur, but imbued with the characteristics of a pet canine)
  • Dynomutt, a robotic dog who is the partner of the Blue Falcon, in Hanna Barbera's Dynomutt, Dog Wonder (1976) and Laff-A-Lympics(1977–1978)
  • Hong Kong Phooey, star of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name
  • Huckleberry Hound, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
  • Mumbly, from The Mumbly Cartoon Show and Laff-A-Lympics in 1977
  • Muttley, Dick Dastardly's sidekick in Wacky Races with the craziest laugh, Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines and Yogi's Treasure Hunt
  • Potsworth, from Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone
  • Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane with cropped ears
  • Scooby-Dum, a Great Dane with cropped ears
  • Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's nephew
  • Skippy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's Brother
  • Uncle Horton, Scooby-Doo's uncle
  • Yowp Yowp, Episode Duck in Luck from The Yogi Bear Show
  • Wonder Dog, from the first season of Super Friends
• Hector the Bulldog from various Sylvester and Tweety cartoons
• Heen from Howl's Moving Castle
• Hush Puppy, one of Shari Lewis' puppets
• Happy Walter Higgenbottom and many of dogs from The Mighty B on Nickelodeon
• Jasper, Brian Griffin's effeminate gay cousin, Family Guy
• Jock, the Scottish Terrier from Disney's Lady and the Tramp and Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
• Kipper, a young dog who always has adventures waiting for him
• Krypto, a super dog from Cartoon Network's Krypto the Superdog
• K-9 a Looney Tunes character
• Laddie, a dog which was once owned by Bart Simpson in an episode of The Simpsons
• Ladybird, the Hills' pet bloodhound, in King of the Hill
• Lafayette, the Basset Hound from Disney's The Aristocats
• Lilly - Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Little Brother, Mulan's dog in Disney's Mulan
• Loyal Heart Dog - a Care Bears cousin
• Marc Antony, Looney Tunes character
• McNutly from Moshi Monsters
• Max, the sheep dog from [[The Little Mermaid (1989 film}|The Little Mermaid]]
• Max, the Grinch's companion in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• Max Goof, son of Goofy
• Maxipes Fik
• MEL (Mechanically Enhanced Lapdog), a robotic talking dog from Knowledge Adventure's Blaster Learning System series and Nelvana's Blaster's Universe animated series
• Mendoza, from Fat Dog Mendoza
• Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, Tom Terrific's companion on Captain Kangaroo
• Miranda, an abandoned yorkie/poodle mix on PBS's Martha Speaks. Abandoned by her snooty owner " 'cause she didn't match the drapes"
• Mr. Peabody, genius dog and history expert in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Mr. Pendleton from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones
• Mr. Tadakichi, Chiyo Mihama's Great Pyrenees in Azumanga Daioh.
• Ms. Lion from Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
• Mop Top, dog owned by The Brady Kids, an animated series produced by Filmation studios.
• Mungo, from the 1969 BBC TV cartoon series "Mary, Mungo and Midge", created by John Ryan
• Nana, from Peter Pan
• Napoleon, the Bloodhound from Disney's classic The Aristocats
• Nokoruyama, from Dragonball GT
• Nick, from Nick and Noel
• Paddlefoot, Spinner's pet long-eared dachshund in Clutch Cargo
• Pal, The Reade family dog on PBS's Arthur. Also Perky, Killer (Grandma Thora's dog) and Amigo
• Patou, from Rock-A-Doodle
• Pakkun, a dog from the anime and manga series Naruto
• Pedro Martinez from Kimi ni Todoke
• Peter Puppy, the alien dog is sidekick jim voiced by Jeff Bennett in Earthworm jim
• Penny Dog, a friend of Minnie Mouse
• Pero, the dog (who is eventually turned into a cyborg) of Higeoyaji in the manga Astro Boy
• Pinky, Isabella's dog from Phineas and Ferb
• Pluto, Disney character, a dog with dog characteristics
• Pochacco, friend of Hello Kitty
• Poochie, the dog added to The Itchy & Scratchy Show (making it The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show) and voiced by Homer Simpson in The Simpsons episode The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
• Pops, an abandoned dog on PBS's Martha Speaks
• Porkchop, Doug Funnie's dog in the animated series Doug
• Preston, the evil canine robot in Aardman Animation's Wallace and Gromit.
• Pudgy, Betty Boop's dog
• Ren Höek, the asthma-hound Chihuahua in Ren and Stimpy.
• Rex the Runt
• Reddy, from Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
• Road Rovers dogs Hunter, Colleen, Blitz, Exile, Shag, Muzzle, and Professor William F. Shepherd
• Robowan, friend of Hello Kitty
• Roger, from Bobby's World
• Roobarb of Roobarb & Custard
• Rover Dangerfield
• Rude Dog (and accompanying Dweebs), from 1989 fashion-marketing cartoon Rude Dog and the Dweebs
• Rowlf, the piano-playing Muppet dog from The Jimmy Dean Show and The Muppet Show and all the Muppet films
• Ruff Ruffman, from the TV series FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman
• Runt, from the Rita and Runt segments of the Animaniacs animated series
• Sam from Sam and Max comic books
• Sasha Le Fleur from All Dogs Go to Heaven Series
• Santa's Little Helper, on FOX's long running The Simpsons (1989–present)'
• Schaeffer, a sheepdog, one of the main characters in The Raccoons
• Scamp from Moshi Monsters
• Seymour, Philip J. Fry's dog in 1999, as seen in the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark"
• Sharik, from animated film Three from Buttermilk Village and its sequels
• Sharky the Sharkdog, Annabelle's pet guard dog in Eek! The Cat
• Shoshine, a beagle from the 1960s cartoon Underdog'
• Sparky, the gay dog from the South Park series
• Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier from Warner Bros's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series in the 1950s
• Spike also known as Butch or Killer, bulldog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons
• Tyke, Spike's son, from the Tom and Jerry cartoons
• Spike, the family dog in Rugrats and All Grown Up!
• Spit the Dog, a TV glove puppet dog puppeteered by Bob Carolgees
• Spot (a.k.a. Scott Leadready) from Disney's Teacher's Pet
• Spotty Dog, "..the very biggest spotty dog you ever did see", from The Woodentops
• Sprocket, Doc's dog on Fraggle Rock
• Spunky, Rocko's dog in Rocko's Modern Life
• Stogie, Andy's dog in Mission Hill
• Streak, Butterscotch and Mandirin. Litter of three abandoned puppies on PBS's Martha Speaks
• Sweep, glove puppet character on all Sooty TV programmes
• The Talking Dog in The Powerpuff Girls
• Detective Thursday, from the Tale Spin animated series in 1990
• Toby, Sherlock Holmes' dog in The Great Mouse Detective
• Toby Terrier, a dog puppet who starred in his own video film series, Toby Terrier and His Video Pals. Toby Terrier is also the name of the interactive toy dog that came with many of these videos
• Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien'
• General Tumult, from the Tale Spin animated series
• Tyke, Spyke's son from the Tom and Jerry' and Tom & Jerry Kids series
• Underdog, superhero from the cartoon series by the same name, and his main squeeze, Sweet Polly Purebred
• Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer of Ghostbusters
• Warden Waddlesworth, from the Darkwing Duck cartoon
• Weed, the son of Gin. The protagonist of Ginga Densetsu Weed
• White Fang from Moshi Monsters
• Wordsworth, from Jamie and the Magic Torch
• Yukk!, from Mighty Man and Yukk!, he was the ugliest dog ever seen, he uses a dog house over his head
• Zero, a ghost dog with a jack o' lantern nose from the stop motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Zuul, Gatekeeper of Gozer also of Ghostbusters

Dogs in song

Only songs with dog characters are included in this section. Not metaphorical dogs or songs with "dog" in the title.

• Arrow, from Harry Nilsson's single "Me and My Arrow", also featured in The Point!
• "Atomic Dog" by George Clinton
• Bingo, from the spelling song of the same name. It's worth noting that the lyrics do not make it clear whether Bingo is the name of the dog or the farmer.
• "Black Shuck", song by The Darkness about the spectral black dog, Black Shuck
• Boo, from "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", a 1971 song by LOBO (aka Roland Kent Lavoie)
• Carlos, "A little chihuahua ... that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind" in the song "Frank's Wild Years" by Tom Waits
• "Feed Jake" - a song about a dog named Jake by Pirates of the Mississippi
• Fido, a talking dog from the Frank Zappa song "Stinkfoot".
• Frank, in "Classified" by C. W. McCall
• Fronobulax, a large poodle, appears on the Frank Zappa and the Mothers album Roxy and Elsewhere.
• Jack, Crazy Chester's dog in "The Weight" by The Band
• "Martha My Dear" by the Beatles (Paul McCartney's sheepdog)
• "Old King" by Neil Young
• "Ol' Red", a prison dog from the song of the same name, recorded by George Jones, Kenny Rogers and Blake Shelton
• "Old Shep" by Red Foley as also sung by Elvis Presley and many other country performers
• "Old Tige", by Jim Reeves
• Wolf from Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
• Quiche Lorraine, a two-inch tall green poodle, from a song of the same name by The B-52's from the album Wild Planet
• Seamus in song by same name (from Meddle) by Pink Floyd
• Sinatra, the dog named after the singer for its blue eyes in the 2002 song "Sinatra" by Canadian folk singer James Keelaghan
• Strider, a Merle dog in Over the Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin

Dogs in video games

Main article: List of fictional dogs in video games

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Parrapa the Rapper Game Cover

Dog	Origin	System(s)	Notes
Bill Grey	Star Fox 64	N64	Trained at the Cornerian Flight Academy with Fox McCloud, elected commander of the Husky and Bulldog squadrons of Corneria.
Bolt	Bolt	PC · Wii · Xbox 360 · PS2 · PS3 · DS	a white American Shepherd Dog and the protagonist from the 2008 animated feature of the same name.
Parappa the Rapper	Parappa the Rapper	PlayStation	trying to impress the love of his life. He motivates himself out of problems with his catchphrase, "I Gotta Believe!" His name comes from the Japanese term for 'paper thin'.
Poochy	Yoshi's Island	SNES  · GBA	similar to a dog yet has no visible ears or nose; looks very little like a dog and somewhat like a duck.
Dogmeat	Fallout · Fallout 2 · Fallout 3	PC	A dog companion in the original two Fallout games, also available in Fallout 3. Likely not the same dog between games, each Dogmeat is an easily befriended mutt that reflects the sense of desperation and harsh living in the post-apocalyptic wastes.

Dogs in comics

Krypto the Superdog is Superman's pet dog in the various Superman comic books published by DC Comics.

Main article: List of fictional dogs in comics

Dog	Origin	Notes
64	Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134	the Beagle Boys' pet dachshund who wears a red shirt and a green cap, marked with the number 64. The Beagle Boys frequently take 64 along on their robberies, to act as a guard dog and to reach spaces too small for the Beagle Boys themselves.
Ace, The Bat-Hound	Batman #92	The comic book character Ace the Bat-Hound was the crime-fighting German Shepherd partner of Batman and Robin in DC Comics of the 1950s and 1960s.
Dogbert	Dilbert (1989)	Dilbert's anthropomorphic pet talking dog from the Dilbert comic strip.
Howard Huge	Howard Huge (1980)	a pleasant, likable Saint Bernard, who by his very size, gets in the way of the family he lives with, and sometimes, Howard even gets in his own way.
Lockjaw	Fantastic Four #45 (Dec. 1965)	resembles a giant bulldog and serves in the capacity of the Inhumans' teleporter and escort to the Royal Family of the Inhumans.
Odie	Garfield (August 8, 1978)	a kind but (slightly) unintelligent yellow-furred, brown-eared beagle.
Rex the Wonder Dog	Rex the Wonder Dog #1 (Jan/Feb 1952)	a white German Shepherd Dog who spent his early years in the U.S. Army's K-9 Corps, alongside his brother, Pooch.
Snoopy	Peanuts (Oct 4, 1950)	Charlie Brown's pet beagle.

Puppets

• Barkley, a Muppet character on Sesame Street
• Farfel the Dog, ventriloquist puppet and Nestle advertising ico
• Rowlf, the piano-playing Muppet dog from The Jimmy Dean Show and The Muppet Show and all the Muppet films
• Sweep, glove puppet character on all Sooty TV programmes
• Toby Terrier, a dog puppet who starred in his own video film series, Toby Terrier and His Video Pals. Toby Terrier is also the name of the interactive toy dog that came with many of these videos

See also

• List of famous dogs

References

• "Dogs in Fiction.; Famous Novelists Who Have Written About Them", New York Times, May 28, 1898
• J. Walker McSpadden, Famous Dogs in Fiction
• Wendy Bousfield, "Dogs", The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy, vol. 1

External links

• Oldvet.com
• Famous dog names with images and information in a sortable table.