List of fictional dogs

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This is a list of fictional dogs from literature, films etc. (It also includes some real dogs due to the proliferation of reality television shows and advertising). For mythological dogs, see Mythological dogs. For real/famous dogs, see List of dogs.

Dogs in literature

• Addison, Burke Stodger's dog, who spent too much time watching George Sanders films, in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice^[1]
• Almondine, Edgar's dog, in David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
• 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).^[2]
• 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
• 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
• 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^[3]
• 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^[4]
• 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
• 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
• Pongo, a Dalmatian in Dodie Smith's novel The Hundred and One 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"^{[citation needed]}
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• 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^{[citation needed]} (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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• 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
• 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

See also Category:Films about dogs

• 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,^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}
• Balto, from Balto^{[citation needed]}
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• Bruiser from Legally Blonde^{[citation needed]}
• Buckley, Ari and Uzi's hound dog from The Royal Tenenbaums which survives a plane crash, and later faces further tribulations.^{[citation needed]}
• Buckshot, Ulee's (Peter Fonda) hound dog in "Ulee's Gold"
• Butler, Captain James T. Kirk's Great Dane from Star Trek Generations^{[citation needed]}
• Buddy, the dog from the Air Bud film series.
• Buster, from The Bodyguard^{[citation needed]}
• Buster, from Monkeybone^{[citation needed]}
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• Cerberus, greyhound in 2004 comedy Man About Dog
• Cherokee, Sydney Prescott's golden retriever from Scream 3
• Chestnut. Great Dane [chestnut]^{[citation needed]}
• 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 Dog supposed to be a trained 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's 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 on the radio

• Boggins in "Adam and Joe" on BBC 6 Music, 2009, voiced by Adam Buxton.
• Sandy in Little Orphan Annie, a radio show that aired between 1930 and 1942, voiced by Orson Welles.
• Psyche, in the UK radio series A Life of Bliss, played by Percy Edwards

Snoopadoop from the UK radio series 'Cabin Pressure'

Dogs in television

• Akamaru, Kiba Inuzuka's dog in the television series Naruto
• Alistair, co-star of Crystal Tipps and Alistair, 1970s children's TV cartoon from BBC Children's Programmes
• Allen, Spence's pug in the television show King of Queens
• Anubis Cruger from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
• Arnold, Turtle's rottweiler from Entourage
• Backup, the Pit Bull owned by Veronica on Veronica Mars
• Blacktoe, Commander William Riker's dog from Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Black Tooth, "The Biggest and Sweetest Dog in the USA" on The Soupy Sales Show
• Blue, The title character of the children's series, Blue's Clues
• Bob, the title character in the episode "Dumb Witness" in Agatha Christie's Poirot, based on the book of the same name
• Bob the Dog, from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, played by Bob Trow
• Boomer dog from the TV series Here's Boomer
• Bouncer, a Labrador Retriever from the soap opera Neighbours
• Bpo Bpo, Sun's dog from Lost
• Brandon the Wonder Dog, a Golden Retriever on NBC's Punky Brewster in 1984 and its cartoon spinoff in 1985
• Brandy Harrington, a main character on Disney's Brandy and Mr. Whiskers.
• Buck from Married... with Children (replaced by another dog named Lucky in later episodes)
• Buddy, Veronica Chase's Bulldog on Veronica's Closet
• Bullet the Wonder Dog, Roy Rogers' German Shepherd on The Roy Rogers Show
• Buster, Hurley's dog in Lost
• Captain Whiskers, from Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
• Celine, the chihuahua from Summer Heights High
• Chacha, from I Love Bubu Chacha
• Charlie the Wonder Dog, star of the sketch of the same name in The Late Show in a parody of other fictitious animal shows such as Lassie
• Chester, spoiled Pomeranian belonging to C.C. Babcock on CBS's The Nanny
• Claude, Mrs. Drysdale's Poodle on The Beverly Hillbillies
• Cleo, Talking Basset Hound on "The People's Choice (1958 TV series)
• Colin, dog from the BBC Series Spaced
• Comet, the family Golden retriever on Full House
• Corneil Jhon and Beths owners in Corneil & Bernie
• Cynthia, Mr. Haney's Basset Hound on Green Acres
• Dagget, robot dog on "Battlestar Galactica"
• Dick Hunter, the Green German Shepherd from the hit show The Price Is Right
• Diefenbaker (aka Dief), Constable Benton Fraser's deaf wolfdog in the TV series Due South
• Digger, a Labrador retriever in Big Barn Farm
• Digby, Ned's Golden retriever on Pushing Daisies
• Doc, Meredith and Derek's dog from ABC's Grey's Anatomy
• Dog, Columbo's Basset Hound
• Dreyfus, the St. Bernard and Golden Retriever mix on Empty Nest
• Duke, a sheepdog from Back at the Barnyard.
• Duke, Jed Clampett's Bloodhound on The Beverly Hillbillies
• Dukey, from Johnny Test
• Earl, Barry Allen's golden retriever on The Flash TV series.
• Eddie (played by Moose and Enzo), the Jack Russell Terrier seen on NBC's Frasier from 1993 until 2004 (the spin-off show to Cheers) and 2 The More You Know psa's in 1997
• Elizabeth Taylor (née Princess Dandyridge Brandywine), the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel from HBO's Sex and the City
• Feebie from, FOX's Married... with Children
• Flash, The Basset Hound from The Dukes of Hazzard
• Fred, "Little Ricky's" puppy in I Love Lucy
• Freeway, Jonathan & Jennifer Hart's dog from ABC's Hart to Hart
• Gromit - from BBC clay animation TV series Wallace and Gromit
• Gnasher, of Dennis the Menace
• Gus, American Bulldog owned by Grace Hanadarko in Saving Grace TV series
• Happy from The CW's 7th Heaven by Spelling Television
• Henry, the bloodhound, who co-starred in dog food commercials with hangdog Clement Freud
• Hobo (aka London), a German Shepherd from The Littlest Hobo TV series and film
• Holden, Tracey's dog from ABC's Lost
• Inspector Rex
• Ivanna, the London Tipton's pomeranian dog in the Disney TV series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• Jack from Tales of the Gold Monkey
• Jake the Black Labrador Retriever in the Australian soap Neighbours.
• Jake the dog from Adventure Time
• Jimi, the Yorkshire Terrier (unconfirmed breed type) in "The Chris Isaak Show"
• Jimmy, the fat bulldog - South Park
• Jeb from VR Troopers
• Joe, German Shepherd from Run, Joe, Run - a live-action TV program that aired on Saturday mornings.
• K-9, a '"caninoid" robot in Doctor Who
• Kiwi, Odd Della Robbia's dog in Code Lyoko
• Krypto the Superdog, Superman's pet dog
• Ladadog, family dog on Please Don't Eat the Daisies
• Laddie, a dog who belonged to Bart in one episode of The Simpsons. At the end of the episode he was given to the Springfield Police for use as a drug-sniffing dog; the character was never seen again.
• Larry the barking dog, from Talkshow with Spike Feresten
• Lassie, see Dogs in film, above
• Liquidator from Disney's Darkwing Duck
• Lojack from Sci-Fi TV Series Eureka
• McGruff the Crime dog
• Maximillian (Max-a-Million), the Bionic Dog, a German Shepherd from The Bionic Woman
• Martha, on the new Martha Speaks on PBS
• Mignon, Lisa Douglas's Yorkshire Terrier on Green Acres
• Miscellaneous Pokémon species, including Growlithe, Arcanine, Houndour, Houndoom, and others
• Mr Mittens, from Grounded for Life
• Mr. Muggles, the Bennets' dog from NBC'sHeroes
• Murray, the Buchmans' Collie-shepherd mix on Mad About You
• Muttley
• Odie, Jon's dog on the television show Garfield and Friends and the television films on CBS before that, voiced by Gregg Berger and created by Jim Davis
• Old Pap, an Australian shepherd in Big Barn Farm
• Oscar, Jeff Green's dog in Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Pal, from the Arthur children's TV program
• Peanut Butter, the dressed up dog, from Mr. Show
• Paul Anka, Lorelai's dog on Gilmore Girls
• Poochini, star of Poochini's Yard
• Porthos, the Beagle owned by Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise
• Reckless, The family dog on the 1970s television series "The Waltons".
• Rex, the police dog on the Austrian television series Inspector Rex
• Queequeg, Clyde Bruckman's Pomeranian left to Dana Scully on The X-Files, subsequently eaten by a lake monster
• R.I.C., Robotic Interactive Canine assistant to the Power Rangers
• Roly, a poodle in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Rodney, the Maltese Terrier on The Chris Isaak Hour The Chris Isaak Hour
• Roosevelt, Pee Wee Herman's dog, from Pee Wee's Playhouse
• Rowdy, Turk and J.D.'s stuffed dog from Scrubs
• Santas Little Helper, Greyhound, family pet of The Simpsons
• Schotzie, Dachsund featured on the 1970s-based sitcom That 70s Show
• Scruffy, a small white and brown wire haired terrier on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Sedge, Elizabeth Weir's dog (and actress Torri Higginson's real-life pet) in Stargate: Atlantis
• Seabreeze, a greyhound which is Brian's lover on Family Guy
• Serena, a small black poodle owned by socialite Claire Houghton in the Australian soap opera, Number 96
• Seymour, Fry's dog on Futurama.
• Shelby/Krypto - Clark Kent's dog in the TV series Smallville
• Skits, the Lorraine family's more normal dog on Martha Speaks
• Smiley, the Baxter family's dog from Hazel
• Snoop Dog, parody of Snoopy and Snoop Dogg as seen on a segment of FOX's MADtv
• Spike, The Pickles' dog on Rugrats and All Grown Up!
• Spot/Scott - Disney's Teacher's Pet
• Squeakers, from the episode entitled 'A Girl and Her Dog' - The Cosby Show
• Stinky and Nunzio, Dharma's Briard mix and Corgi on Dharma and Greg
• Sugar, the dog of the kitty-killed archeology grad student in The X-Files
• Taco Bell chihuahua, appeared in ads in the late 1990s saying "Yo quiero Taco Bell".
• Taz, "Maxxie Oliver"'s border collie from E4's "Skins (TV series)"
• Tet, Stringfellow Hawke's Bluetick Coonhound from Airwolf
• Tiger, the family dog from ABC's The Brady Bunch (except the films)
• Tramp, the Douglas family's sheepdog mix on My Three Sons
• Tricki Woo, Mrs. Pumphrey's pekingese in All Creatures Great and Small by BBC, 1978–1990
• Turbo Dogs
• Vincent, the dog from ABC's Lost
• Waffles, lost pet in Time Warner Cable commercial^[5]
• Webster (real name revealed as Stinky), a stray dog kept unlawfully by the Whittakers, in the Australian soap opera, Number 96
• Wellard, a Belgian Shepherd from EastEnders soap on the BBC
• White Fang, "The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA" on the Soupy Sales Show.
• Willy, a pug that plays a pivotal role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Wishbone, a Jack Russell Terrier and main character to the PBS Kids show Wishbone
• Yukon King in Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, a TV show that aired between 1955 and 1958
• Zeus and Apollo, Robin Masters' Doberman Pinschers in Magnum, P.I.

Dogs in animation and puppetry

• 1-Rover-1, 7-Zark-7's robotic dog from the animated T.V. series Battle of the Planets
• 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 JR'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
• Broo, a sheepdog puppy, in The Raccoons
• 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 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
• Doggy, the West Highland White Terrier owned by the Laotian Souphanousinphones family in King of the Hill
• 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
• Fabio, the very-well-cared-for-and-just-as-well-groomed dog owned by Gordy Rhinehart; a character on Nckelodeon's animated aeries "Angela Anaconda".
• 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, the Finsters' family pet in Rugrats starting in 2001 and the films by Paramount Pictures in 2000 and 2003
• Flipsie, a mechanical toy dog from several episodes of "Fairy Odd Parents": Companion, pet or maybe just a toy or object of affection of the life-size "Dark Laser" action figure as represented in this series.
• Fu Dog in American Dragon: Jake Long
• Fussy, a dog that adopted by Francine in American Dad!
• The dog that was transformed into a foot stool while retaining its canine behavior in Beauty and the Beast
• Gin, a silver tora-ge (brindle) Akita Inu who fights the bear, Akakabuto in Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
• 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)
  • Dixie-Doo, Scooby-Doo's cousin from a 1984 episode
  • Dooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo's cousin from a 1984 Scooby-Doo episode
  • 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
  • Howdy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's Brother from the Scooby-Doo series
  • 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
  • Ruby-Doo, Scooby-Doo's Sister from a 1984 episode
  • Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane with cropped ears
  • Scooby-Dee, Scooby-Doo's cousin from a 1976 episode of The Scooby-Doo Show
  • 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
  • Scoby Doo, a mystery dog
  • Yowp Yowp, Episode Duck in Luck from The Yogi Bear Show
  • Whoopsy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's cousin in 1984
  • Wonder Dog, from the first season of Super Friends
  • Yankee-Doodle-Doo, the 'Doo' that rode over on the mayflower from an episode of The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show in 1983
  • Yabba-doo, Scooby-Doo's 'western' cousin from a 1982 version of Scooby-Doo

• Hector the Bulldog from various Sylvester and Tweety cartoons
• Heen from Howl's Moving Castle
• Hush Puppy, one of Shari Lewis's 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
• K-9 a Looney Tunes character
• Krypto, the superpowered pet dog of Superman, in DC comics
• 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
• Max, the sheep dog from 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 What ever 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.
• 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
• Santa's Little Helper, on FOX's long running The Simpsons (1989–present)'
• Schaeffer, a sheepdog, one of the main characters in The Raccoons
• 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
• characters in Disney's Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3
• Thirsty, a dying dog owned by Clara in an episode of Drawn Together
• Toby, Sherlock Holmes's 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
• 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.

• Apollo, from various Coheed & Cambria songs, whose name appears in the titles of their third and fourth albums
• 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)
• "Bow Wow Wow Wow (Wild Dog on the Prowl)" sung by Mitch Ryder with Was (Not Was)
• 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
• "Dog Eat Dog", a song by AC/DC
• "Dog Eat Dog", a song by Adam and the Ants
• "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley
• "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.
• "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", popular song by Bob Merrill, 1953, recorded by Patti Page
• "I Love My Dog", by Cat Stevens
• 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
• 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
• Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, with his ears cut short and his tail cut long
• "Sick as a Dog" by Aerosmith
• 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
• The dog who "up and died" in "Mr. Bojangles", written by Jerry Jeff Walker
• A dog that won't get off the furniture in "Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
• "The Puppy song" by Harry Nilsson
• "The Nudist & Mr. Pendleton" by fictional band The Lavender Fudge Experience (from the TV series Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?)

Dogs in video games

• The dog from Duck Hunt.
• The Hero's Dog in Torchlight
• The attack Dogs in the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series
• Dog in Dragon Age: Origins
• Chomp Chomp from Pacman
• Dogz
• Dribble, Manager Joe, and Ken the Reporter - Wario Ware
• Poppy, Galford's dog (and Poppy's puppies, Papa, Pipi, and Pipa) in Samurai Shodown (series)
• Angelo, Rinoa's dog in Final Fantasy VIII
• Boney From Mother 3
• King From EarthBound
• Do From EarthBound Zero
• Dogmeat from Fallout 3
• Fluffy, the dog that belonged to Samantha Maxis in the zombie mode of Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty Black Ops. She had puppies that eventually became the first Hellhounds.
• Duffer, the family dog of 9-Volt (who looks like a 9-Volt, but his voice is barked like a dog) - Wario Ware, Inc.
• Flippy from Toontown Online
• Interceptor, Shadow's dog in Final Fantasy VI
• Shadow, Jack Slate's dog in the Dead to Rights series
• Leon, an F-Zero racer
• K. K. Slider, a guitarist from Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: Wild World.
• Nintendogs
• iPet Dogs- iPod Touch and iPhone
• Parappa the Rapper and his rival, Joe Chin
• Peter Puppy, the alien dog in Earthworm Jim, and Earthworm Jim 2
• Missile, a main character in the video game Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.
• Multiple Pokémon species:
  • Growlithe, Fire-type Pokémon based on a puppy
  • Arcanine, Fire-type Pokémon based on a komainu that evolves from Growlithe
  • Snubbull, Normal-type Pokémon based on a bulldog
  • Granbull, Normal-type Pokémon based on a bulldog that evolves from Snubbull
  • Houndour, Fire/Dark-type Pokémon resembling a Doberman Pinscher or Cŵn Annwn
  • Houndoom, Fire/Dark-type Pokémon resembling a Doberman Pinscher or Cŵn Annwn that evolves from Houndour
  • Poochyena, Dark-type Pokémon based on a puppy or wolf
  • Mightyena, Dark-type Pokémon based on a wolf that evolves from Poochyena
  • Riolu, Fighting-type Pokémon based on a puppy or young jackal
  • Lucario, Fighting/Steel-type Pokémon based on an Anubis-like jackal that evolves from Riolu
  • Lillipup, Normal-type Pokémon based on a yorkshire terrier
  • Herdier, Normal-type Pokémon based on a yorkshire terrier that evolves from Lillipup
  • Stoutland, Normal-type Pokémon based on a yorkshire terrier or st. bernard that evolves from Herdier
• Poochy, from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story
• Puppy Luv - Wii game
• Various characters in the dalmatian in Animal Crossing
• Rush, the robotic dog from the Megaman Series
• Turbo, the dog in Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma.
• Tiger and Baku, dog-like monsters from Monster Rancher
• Various characters from Digimon, including Salamon, Dogmon, Gaomon and others.
• Hewie, the white German Shepherd from Haunting Ground
• Lupus, the war hound from Jet Force Gemini
• Hajime, Mick, Shinobu, Kakeru, and Nene, Jenka's pets from Cave Story
• Bill Grey, General Pepper, Fay, and Captain Shears from the Star Fox series are all anthropomorphic canines of various types.
• Missile, the police dog in training from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Jake, An American Foxhound is the main character, he's featured in Dog's Life video game. Daisy is taken by 'a big red truck' and the villain Miss Peaches is going to put her through the big machine. It's up to Jake to save the day. He also meets several other dogs when on his quest to find Daisy.^{[citation needed]}
• Wonder Dog
• Muggshott the bulldog from Sly Cooper and The Thievius Raccoonus^{[citation needed]}
• Brown, the Labrador in Rule of Rose
• The Hero's dog in Fable 2
• Dogmeat in Fallout (video game), Fallout 2, and Fallout 3
• Quarm, the 3-headed dog and final boss of the Plane of Time in the popular MMORPG, Everquest^{[citation needed]}
• K-9, Cyber-Dog and Pariah Dog in Fallout 2
• Koromaru in Persona 3 who is able to summon his own Persona and fight with the party.
• Dog, a robot with dog-like characteristics from the Half life series(excluding the original game and its extensions)^{[citation needed]}
• Mira in one of the Silent Hill 2 endings^{[citation needed]}
• Yamato in Shadow Dancer^{[citation needed]}
• The Boy's pet dog in The Secret of Evermore, which changes appearance and behavior based on the different settings.
• Repede from the Namco video game Tales of Vesperia

Dogs in comics

The webcomic Seven Years in Dog-Land showcases an alternate world where dogs are the masters and humans, their pets

• "1," a.k.a. Bandit in We3
• 64, the Beagle Boys' pet dog
• Ace, The Bat-Hound, a Black and Straw GSD and a member of the Batman mythos of DC comics
• The Angriest Dog in the World, from the comic strip by David Lynch
• Andy, in Peanuts. He is one of Snoopy's brothers^{[citation needed]}
• Argo the superdog in PS238
• Attila, the Talking Dog in Spirou by Claude De Ribaupierre (Derib) with Maurice Rosy.
• Barfy, in Family Circus
• Barnabas, the talking canine companion of first Destruction and later Delirium in The Sandman
• Beaumont in Pooch Café
• Beauregard, the Bloodhound in Walt Kelly's Pogo
• Belle in Peanuts, she is the only sister to Snoopy and his brothers.
• Bill, the Cocker Spaniel from Boule et Bill
• Blu, in Monica's Gang
• Black Bob "The Dandy Wonder Dog" from the British The Dandy comic.
• Boomer in Pooch Café
• Böwser vön Überdog, antagonist in The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama.
• Brutus, a great dane owned by the villainous Bird brothers in The Secret of the Unicorn
• Buckles, from the comic strip by David Gilbert
• Canines, the race of giant talking dogs that reflect human society from the webcomic Seven Years in Dog-Land.
• Cagney, a Boston Terrier in Zack Hill.
• Chad, the dog in the comic strip Mal and Chad
• Cosmo the Spacedog, Marvel Comics^{[citation needed]}
• Cudlow, in Goosemeyer^{[citation needed]}
• Daisy, the Bumstead Family's Weimaraner from Blondie
• Dinobite, a talking dog in Heathcliff comics
• Dog, the border collie in Murray Ball's Footrot Flats
• Hotdog, Jughead's dog in the Archie comics
• Dogbert, the assertive dog owned by the unassertive Dilbert
• Idefix, faithful companion to Obelix in the original French Asterix comic books^{[citation needed]}
• Dogmatix, faithful companion to Obelix in the English translations of the Asterix comic books^{[citation needed]}
• Droolia in Pooch Café
• Duke in Monica's Gang
• Earl in Mutts
• Effdee, the protagonist on the fantasy webcomic Anema: Age of the Robots
• Fergus in Citizen Dog
• Fred Basset
• Gin, an Akita Inu, and various others, from the Japanese manga Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin, its sequel Ginga Densetsu Weed, and associated properties created by Yoshihiro Takahashi.
• Glu, in Monica's Gang
• Guard Dog^{[citation needed]} in Mutts
• Gnasher and his son Gnipper, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Gnipper
• Grimm, of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm
• Gus in Pooch Café
• Henry 'Ahoy' Dingo (dingo), a character in The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama
• Howard Huge
• Hudson in Pooch Café
• Jess, a border collie in Murray Ball's Footrot Flats
• Sergeant Kemlo "Hyperdog" Caesar of Neopolis PD in Top 10. A hyperintelligent doberman who wears a humanoid exoskeleton.
• Kreeg in Sojourn
• Krypto in Superman
• Lockjaw (comics), the Inhumans dog, Marvel Comics
• Manfred in Monica's Gang
• Marbles in Peanuts He is one of Snoopy's brothers and considered the smartest of the litter. He has the most spots of any dog in the litter.^{[citation needed]}
• Marmaduke, a Great Dane with an eponymous daily comic strip
• Molly in Peanuts She is one of Snoopy's sisters but only referred to once in the special Snoopy's Reunion.^{[citation needed]}
• Monicao in Monica's Gang
• Morty the Dog in various comics by Steve Willis
• Napoleon in Napoleon and Uncle Elby
• Odie in the Garfield series by Jim Davis
• Olaf also in the Garfield series
• Otto in Beetle Bailey. He is Sargent Snorkel's pet in the army.
• Poncho, in Pooch Café
• Ponta, the protagonist of Guru Guru Pon-chan
• Poo Poo in Pooch Café
• "Pup Dog Chile", little puppy from Walt Kelly's Pogo
• Rex the Wonder Dog from DC Comics
• Rocket, the pet of Chacha Chaudhary
• Roscoe, from Pickles
• Rufferto, Groo's dog^{[citation needed]}
• Rosebud, the basselope (Basset hound/Antelope mix) in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip Bloom County
• Rover in Red and Rover
• Rover in Peanuts He is one of Snoopy's brothers and like Molly only appeared in the Snoopy's Reunion special.^{[citation needed]}
• Sam, the anthropomorphic dog detective from the comic book Sam & Max
• Sam in Family Circus
• Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog (known for saying "Arf")^{[citation needed]}
• Satchel Pooch in Get Fuzzy
• Snert, Hagar's dog in Dik Browne's comic strip Hagar the Horrible
• Snoopy in the Peanuts comic and TV series
• Snowy (Milou) in The Adventures of Tintin
• Space Canine Patrol Agents, from DC Comics
• Spike in Peanuts He is one of Snoopy's brothers and the most referred to one in the series. Spike lives in the desert near Needles, California.
• Thor the Thunder Dog, The Original Manhunter's canine companion^{[citation needed]}
• Tige, Buster Brown's American Pit Bull terrier^{[citation needed]}
• Various miscellaneous dogs that appear from time to time in The Far Side
• Vivian Irving's dog in Cathy
• Waldo, an anthropomorphic hound in the Heathcliff comics
• Woofie in Mutts
• Yankee Poodle, an anthropomorphic poodle in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Published by DC Comics)

Dogs as sporting mascots

• Smokey, mascot of the Tennessee Volunteers
• Jack the Bulldog, mascot of the Georgetown Hoyas
• Brutus, mascot for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs
• Woofer Dog Whitten, mascot of the Western Bulldogs
• Uga, mascot of Georgia Bulldogs
• Handsome Dan, mascot of the Yale Bulldogs
• Rhett, mascot of the Boston University Terriers
• Johnathan, mascot of the UConn Huskies
• Reveille, is the mascot of Texas A&M University

Other fictional dogs

• Froofie the Dog, fictional cartoon dog from a Bill Cosby monologue of the same name from Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby
• Power Pup, the superhero dog from the Microsoft Office Assistant
• FidoNet logo

See also

• Dogs Playing Poker
• List of famous dogs
• List of fictional animals
• List of fictional cats

References

1. ^ Bill Millard (2009), "Pynchon's Coast: Inherent Vice and the Twilight of the Spatially Specific", College Hill Review (4), http://www.collegehillreview.com/004/0040501.html 
2. ^ Naxos Audio Books
3. ^ Beth Gutcheon (November 10, 1996), "Wise Guys", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/10/books/wise-guys.html?pagewanted=1 
4. ^ Eldritchpress.org
5. ^ Pointless Planet, "Time Warner Cable 'Waffles'", June 11, 2011

• "Dogs in Fiction.; Famous Novelists Who Have Written About Them", New York Times, May 28, 1898, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E1DC1738E433A2575BC2A9639C94699ED7CF 
• J. Walker McSpadden, Famous Dogs in Fiction, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sg3zpsjPZ50C 
• Wendy Bousfield, "Dogs", The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy, 1, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SQMQQyIaACYC&pg=PA207 

External links

• Images of famous dogs with links back to Wikipedia for information
• Oldvet.com