Dogs

Fictional Dogs, Legendary, mythical and fairytale Dogs

This is a list of fictional Dogs from literature, movies etc.

Legendary, mythical and fairytale Dogs

• Argos, Odysseus's Dog.
• Anubis, Ancient Egyptian god with a Dog's (or a jackal's) head
• Barghest, English goblin-Dog
• Black Shuck, British hound of hell
• Bran, Fionn mac Cumhail's hound
• Cabal, King Arthur's Dog
• Canis Major and Canis Minor, Orion's hunting Dogs
• Canes Venatici, constellation of the hunting Dogs
• Cerberus (demon of the pit), the hound of Hades in Greek mythology (also his brother, Orthrus)
• Cwn Annwn (Gabriel Hounds), ghost hounds of the land of the dead
• Dip, in Catalan myth
• Fenris, a monstrous wolf, offspring of Loki and Angrboda in Norse mythology
• Fu Dog, Chinese guardians
• Garm, a four-eyed Dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology
• Gelert, a Dog belonging to Llywelyn the Great which gave its name to Beddgelert in Wales
• Hecuba, in Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce Dog
• Laelaps, in Greek mythology
• Marea, in Greek mythology
• Sirius, in Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major
• Scylla, in Greek mythology
• Qiqirn, in Inuit mythology
• Xolotl, in Aztec mythology
• The Wolf, from Little Red Riding Hood in Grimm's Fairy Tales

Dogs in literature

• Banga, Pontius Pilatus' Dog in The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
• Bella, Useppe's companion in La Storia (History) by Elsa Morante.
• Big Red, Irish Red and other Irish Setters, protagonists of novels by Jim Kjelgaard, some of which were also Disneyfied
• Boots, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling
• Boyd, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's Dog in Kathy Reichs novels
• Buck, the main character in Jack London's Call of the Wild
• Bullseye, Bill Sikes' Dog in Oliver Twist
• Čang, his master's (the sea captain) drinking companion in The Dreams of Čang by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.
• Cujo the St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King (later a movie)
• Cyril, the Dog in Connie Willis's book about time-travel To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which three men in a boat pass Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) (you had to be there)
• Dingo, in A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
• the Disreputable Dog, in Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
• Duchess, the Dog who thought she swallowed a patty pan, in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan
• Duke, Penrod Schofield's Terrier mix in Booth Tarkington's Penrod: His Complete Story
• Fang, Hagrid's Dog, a boarhound (a Mastiff) in the Harry Potter books: (in the movies, Fang is a Neapolitan Mastiff)
• Fluffy, the three-headed Dog (similar to Cerberus) in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Hank the CowDog, the crimefighting hero of several novels by John Erickson
• Gaspode, an unusually clever Dog who talks, in various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
• Greyfriars Bobby, a true story which became the basis of much fiction
• 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!
• Hounds of Tindalos from the Cthulhu mythos
• Howard, the Dog in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe
• Huan, The great wolfhound of Valinor, friend and helper of Beren and L?thien, in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Silmarillion
• Hundred and One Dalmatians (The) by Dodie Smith, subsequently made into a movie by Walt Disney
• Jack from Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
• Jenny, the star of Maurice Sendak's Higglety-Pigglety Pop, or, There Must Be More To Life
• Jock, from Jock of the Bushveld, by Sir Percy FitzPatrick, a South African classic first published in 1907
• John Joiner, the terrier who rescued Tom Kitten from being made into a pudding by rats in Beatrix Potter's The Roly-Poly Pudding
• Kashtanka, the main character in Anton Chekhov's short story of the same name (full text)
• Kep, the Collie, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck and other books
• Lad, a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
• Laddie (a send-up of Lassie (qv)) who stars in Discworld alongside Gaspode
• Lassie, a collie, from the novel Lassie Come Home upon which the movie was very loosely based
• Leo (aka Sirius), protagonist of Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
• The mad Dog in Oliver Goldsmith's An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
• Martha, the too-talkative Dog of Martha Speaks by Susan Meddough
• Montmorency, the narrator's unruly Fox Terrier in Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) by Jerome K. Jerome
• 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
• Nop, the Border Collie, from the novel Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig
• Nose E., pooch specialist in clandestine bomb- and narcotic-sniffing, (and his Yorkie apprentices, Golda and Groucho), occasionally called in by Midnight Louie (fur-footed sleuth whose exploits are ghost-written by Carole Nelson Douglas) when a puss just can't I.D. a scent; three pounds of baritone bark hidden by four pounds of Maltese fluff and a red bow to clear his peepers
• Old Dan and Little Ann 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
• Patrasche, the Dog in A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
• Orson, the black Labrador retriever of Chris Snow in Dean Koontz's novels Seize the Night and Fear Nothing
• Padfoot , or the nickname commonly referring to Sirius Black's animagus Dog form in the Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling.
• Pickles, the terrier who kept shop with Ginger the cat in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
• The Poky Little Puppy of the children's book written by Janette Sebring Lowry and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
• Prince, Jasper King's Dog in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Ribsy, companion of Henry Huggins and character in numerous novels for young readers by Beverly Cleary
• 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
• Rowf and Snitter, the main characters in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs
• Scupper, from Margaret Wise Brown's children's book, The Sailor Dog, illustrated by Garth Williams
• Sharik/Sharikov, the Dog/man in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog
• Sirius (1944), by Olaf Stapledon, a science fiction novel about a canine Einstein
• Shep, Almanzo's shepherd Dog in Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years and The First Four Years
• The unnamed narrator of Franz Kafka's short story, Investigations of a Dog (1922)
• Tiger, the Dog of Arthur Gordon Pym in A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe and its sequel, An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne
• Top, the Dog of Cyrus Smith in Jules Verne's Mysterious Island
• Toto in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Timmy in the Famous Five series of books by Enid Blyton
• Wellington in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time book by Mark Haddon
• White Fang, the main character in Jack London's book of the same name
• What-a-Mess, the accident-prone Afghan puppy in a series of children's books by Frank Muir (later a television series)
• 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
• An entire civilization of intelligent Dogs evolves in City by Clifford D. Simak

Dogs in film

See also Category:Films about Dogs

• Asta, in the various The Thin Man films.
• The basset hound in Avalon.
• Babe (film) featured Border Collies.
• Beethoven, the St. Bernard hero of the movie series Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th...
• Benji had several movies.
• the many Dog stars of the mockumentary Best in Show.
• Blood, the talking Dog in A Boy and his Dog.
• 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, later better known for portraying Spider-Man.
• Copernicus and Einstein in the Back to the Future trilogy
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, from the film of the same title
• Frank, the alien Dog in Men in Black
• George, Katherine Hepburn's Dog in Bringing Up Baby
• The many Dog stars of Good Boy!, including the main character, Hubble, a Border Terrier, voiced by Matthew Broderick.
• Harvey, Elliot's Dog in E.T.
• Homeward Bound and its sequel, featured Chance, (an American bullDog), and Shadow, (a golden retriever) trying to find their way home through the Sierra mountains. (As well as their Himalayan cat-friend, Sassy.)
• Hooch, the Dogue de Bordeaux costar of Turner and Hooch
• Jerry Lee, the German shepherd supposed to be a trained police Dog in K-9
• Kerouac, the Dog lost by the homeless Jerry Baskin in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Lassie Come Home (1943), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall, many sequels and also a television show. Lassie is always played by a male collie.
• Matisse, Dave Whiteman's Border collie in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Michelangelo, St. Bernard Beethoven's double ? la The Prince and the Pauper in Beethoven's 4th
• Milo, Stanley Ipkiss' Dog in The Mask
• Missy, the St. Bernard girlfriend of Beethoven in Beethoven's 2nd
• Moses, the chalk outline Dog in Dogville
• Nanook, the Siberian husky in The Lost Boys
• Old Yeller (1957), a children's film, originally a novel by Fred Gipson
• Otis, the Pug in The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• General Patton's Bull terrier in Patton
• 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.
• Precious, the white Toy poodle beloved of 'Buffalo Bill' in Silence of the Lambs
• Rin Tin Tin, first Dog star, 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.
• Sam, the Dog in Dante's Peak who leaps out of a field of boiling-hot lava to safety in a passing truck
• A transfigured Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Shiloh, the beagle featured in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's internationally popular Newbery Medal- winning book trilogy ? Shiloh, Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, with more than 7,000,000 books in print. Adapted into three successful films by Carl Borack and Dale Rosenbloom.
• Sparky, the Jack Russell terrier brought back to life by archangel John Travolta in Michael
• Toto in The Wizard of Oz
• Verdell, the Brussels Griffon in As Good as It Gets
• Winn-Dixie, see Dogs in literature, above

Dogs on the radio

• Dennis the Dachshund in The Adventures of Toytown on the BBC Light Programme

Dogs in television

• Brandon, Golden Retriever on Punky Brewster
• Buck from Married... with Children
• Buddy, Veronica Chase's BullDog on Veronica's Closet
• Charlie Dog, a Looney Tunes character
• Bullet the Wonder Dog, Roy Rogers' German Shepherd on The Roy Rogers Show
• Chester, spoiled Pomeranian belonging to Cece Babcock on The Nanny
• Claude, Mrs. Drysdale's Poodle on The Beverly Hillbillies
• Comet, the family Golden retriever on Full House
• Cynthia, Mr. Haney's Basset hound on Green Acres
• Diefenbaker, the half-wolf Dog from Due South
• Dreyfus, the St. Bernard mix on Empty Nest
• Duke, Jed Clampett's Bloodhound on The Beverly Hillbillies
• Earnest, Dave Barry's Dog on Dave's World
• Eddie (played by Moose), the Jack Russell Terrier from Frasier
• Elizabeth Taylor (nee Princess Dandyridge Brandywine) from Sex and the City
• Eric, into which a boy turned, on Woof!
• Fang (or Dog), Columbo's Basset hound
• Flash The Basset Hound from The Dukes of Hazzard
• Fred, Little Ricky's puppy in I Love Lucy
• Happy from 7th Heaven
• K-9, a canoid robot in Doctor Who
• Commander K-9, sidekick/subordinate of Marvin the Martian
• K-9 Cop
• Lassie, see Dogs in film, above
• London the Wonder Dog in The Littlest Hobo, Canadian television series in the late 1950s and early 1960s; and the remake circa 1980s.
• Maximillian (Max-a-Million), the Bionic Dog from The Six Million Dollar Man
• Mignon, Lisa Douglas's Yorkshire terrier on Green Acres
• Murray, the Buchmans' Collie-shepherd mix on Mad About You
• Porthos, the Beagle owned by Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise
• Queegqueg, Clyde Bruckman's Pomeranian left to Dana Scully on The X-Files, subsequently eaten by a lake monster
• Rex from Kommissar Rex (aka Inspector Rex and Rex: A Cop's Best Friend), Austrian/German TV series set in Vienna (1994 - ) (see photos)
• Stinky and Nunzio, Dharma's Briard mix and Corgi on Dharma and Greg
• Sugar, the Dog of the kitty-killed archaeology grad student in The X-Files
• Tiger from The Brady Bunch
• Tramp, the Douglas family's sheepDog mix on My Three Sons
• Truffles (played by Pussy Galore) Mildred's terrier in the British sitcom George & Mildred
• Vincent, the Dog from Lost
• Wishbone, the eponymous Jack Russell Terrier star of a children's educational series featuring literary themes and their application to issues faced by young viewers
• Wubbie
• Yukon King, Sgt. Preston's Husky on Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (created for radio)

Dogs in advertising

• Andrex toilet tissue adverts' puppy
• Duke, the Golden retriever entrusted with the secret family recipe for Bush's Baked Beans
• Lucky, fluffy terrier mascot for the More Than insurance company in a long-running series of UK television advertisements
• Moose, Jack Russell Terrier with many advertising credits
• Nipper, the RCA mascot (see also Victor Talking Machine Company and His Master's Voice)
• Spuds Mackenzie, beer mascot
• Taco Bell mascot, a Chihuahua (see also Taco Bell chihuahua)
• Target commercials' Bull Terrier
• Ubu, Labrador Retriever, mascot of Ubu Productions which produced Family Ties

Cartoons, animation, puppets

• Ace, The Bat-Hound, a Black and Straw GSD and a member of the Batman mythos of DC comics
• characters from the animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven
• Andy, the faithful St. Bernard in the comic strip Mark Trail
• The Angriest Dog in the World, from the comic strip by David Lynch
• Astro from The Jetsons
• Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy by Hanna-Barbera
• Baby Cinnamon, friend of Hello Kitty
• Bad Dog! An early animated computer screen saver
• characters from the animated film Balto
• Bandit, Jonny Quest's terrier
• Barkley, a Muppet character from Sesame Street
• Beauregard, the Bloodhound in Walt Kelly's Pogo
• Beekay (B.K.), Winston's lapDog in Freefall (webcomic) (B.K. stands for Bunny Killer - he kills dust bunnies!)
• Belle, the white mountain Dog, co-star of Belle et S?bastien
• B. H., Calcutta (Failed), the bloodhound with no sense of smell in British comic strip The Perishers
• Bill, a cocker Dog from the comic strip Boule et Bill
• Black Bob, formerly from the British comic The Dandy
• Blue and Magenta in Blue's Clues
• Bolivar, Donald Duck's Dog
• Boot, companion of the boy Wellington in The Perishers
• Brain, from Inspector Gadget
• Brian Griffin, cynical, substance-abusing, talking Dog on Family Guy
• Bruno, apparently a bloodhound cross, in Disney's Cinderella
• Burp, in Gerald McBoing Boing
• CatDog, eponymous star of the Nickelodeon TV show. See also List of fictional cats
• Chacha, a Dog reincarnated into a toy car, but still keeping a Dog-like appearance. He is from the anime I Love Bubu Chacha
• Charlie Dog, Looney Tunes character created by Chuck Jones
• Churchill, a bullDog in the form of a talking nodding Dog car accessory, from UK television ads for Churchill insurance. Originally voiced by Vic Reeves.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Constable BullDog, a very gruff, no-nonsense police officer from Henry's Cat.
• Corneil, talking Dog from Corneil and Bernie.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Cubitus, the fat round white Dog, from the eponymous Belgian comic by Dupa (in the English version of the cartoon series, Cubitus is known as Wowser)
• Daisy, the Dagwood Bumstead family Dog in Blondie
• Deputy Dawg
• Dino in The Flintstones, a metaphorical Dog (biologically a dinosaur, but imbued with the characteristics of a pet canine)
• Dinsdale, the Dog from Rubbish, King of the Jumble.
• Dogbert, the assertive Dog owned by the unassertive Dilbert
• Dogg, whose exposure to the fictional mutagen quantum juice gave him human-level intelligence and speech (from Milestone Comics' Blood Syndicate)
• Dogmatix, faithful companion to Obelix in the English translations of the Asterix comic books
• Dogtanian, the three Muskehounds and the majority of the other characters in the series
• Doggy, the West Highland White Terrier owned by the Laotian Souphanousinphones family in King of the Hill
• Doidle, spoiled Dog of Vicky in The Fairly OddParents.
• Dollar, the Rich family Dog from Richie Rich who's a Dollarmatian (like a Dalmatian, but with dollar signs instead of spots).
• Dr. Doppler, humanoid canine in Disney's Treasure Planet
• Dougal, a hairy philosophical Dog in stop-motion animated show The Magic Roundabout (called Pollux in the French original)
• Droopalong, Sheriff Ricochet Rabbit's sidekick
• Droopy Dog, from cartoons created by Tex Avery for MGM
• Ein the corgi in the anime series Cowboy Bebop
• Einstein, Doc Brown's Dog in Back to the Future
• Elektra, the Dog of Cathy
• The Family Dog
• Far Side Dogs, the many Dogs in Gary Larson's The Far Side cartoons
• Fat Dog Mendoza
• the foot stool in Beauty and the Beast
• Fifi the Peke, Pluto's girlfriend
• Fifi, Lynda Barry's Poodle with a Mohawk - You'll never call him Fifi again!
• Fifi, the Finsters' family pet in Rugrats
• Filya, on the TV screens since 1970s in the Russian (formerly Soviet) Good night, the little ones! (Russian: Спокойной ночи, малыши!)
• Florence Ambrose, a genetically-engineered Bowman's Wolf in the comic strip Freefall
• characters in Disney's The Fox and the Hound
• Gnasher and his son Gnipper, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Gnipper
• Goofy, Disney character, a Dog with human characteristics
• Goopy Geer, Merrie Melodies character
• Goddard, in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Grimm, of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm
• Gromit, of Wallace and Gromit from Nick Park's Aardman Animations films
• HotDog, Jughead's Dog in the Archie comics
• Hector the BullDog from various Sylvester and Tweety cartoons
• Hong Kong Phooey, star of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name
• Huckleberry Hound, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
• Hush Puppy, one of Shari Lewis's puppets
• Id?fix, faithful companion to Obelix in the original French Asterix comic books
• characters in Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp
• Jasper, Brian Griffin's effeminate gay cousin, Family Guy
• Kipper, of the children's books and animated series Kipper the Dog
• Krypto, The superpowered pet Dog of Superman, in DC comics.
• Ladybird, the Hills' pet bloodhound, in King of the Hill
• Little Brother, Mulan's Dog in Disney's Mulan
• Pooka in 20th Century Fox's Anastasia
• Loyal Heart Dog - a Care Bears cousin
• Marc Antony, Looney Tunes character
• Marmaduke, a Great Dane with an eponymous daily comic strip
• Max Goof, son of Goofy
• Menchi, a Chow Chow, pet and emergency ration of Excel in Excel Saga (see also Taboo meat)
• Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, Tom Terrific's companion on Captain Kangaroo
• Muttley, Dick Dastardly's sidekick in Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines and Yogi's Treasure Hunt
• Mr. Peabody, from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Mulch, the Sage's Dog from Groo the Wanderer
• Odie in Garfield
• characters in Disney's Oliver and Company
• characters in One Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Penny Dog, a friend of Minnie Mouse
• Percy in Disney's Pocahontas
• Pero, the Dog (who is eventually turned into a cyborg) of Higeoyaji in the manga Astro Boy
• Pluto, Disney character, a Dog with Dog characteristics
• Pochacco, friend of Hello Kitty
• Pooch, a minor character in ?Sinfest?
• Poodle Princess from Roobarb and Custard Too.
• Prince Eric's Dog in Disney's The Little Mermaid
• Radar, the Hound Supreme (a pastiche of Krypto, from Alan Moore's revisionism of Supreme)
• Rantanplan, of the Lucky Luke comics
• Reddy, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
• Ren H?ek, the asthma-hound Chihuahua in Ren and Stimpy
• Rex, Wendy, Bob & Vince from Rex the Runt
• Robowan, friend of Hello Kitty
• Rocky, main character in Swedish comic Rocky
• Roobarb, title character of a British cartoon series
• characters in Rude Dog and the Dweebs
• Rosebud, the basselope (Basset hound/Antelope mix) in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip Bloom County
• Rowlf, the piano-playing Muppet Dog from The Jimmy Dean Show and The Muppet Show
• Rufferto, Groo The Wanderer's Dog.
• Sam SheepDog, adversary of Ralph Wolf from Sam SheepDog and Ralph Wolf (Looney Tunes)
• Samson, from the Belgian Samson and Gert television series
• Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's Dog (known for saying Arf )
• Santa's Little Helper, from The Simpsons
• Satchel Pooch in Get Fuzzy
• Scamp, Disney character, a puppy born to the Dogs Lady and the Tramp
• Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane with cropped ears.
• Scooby-Dum, a Great Dane with cropped ears.
• Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's nephew.
• Seymour, Philip J. Fry's Dog in 1999, as seen in the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark
• Slinky in Disney's Toy Story
• Snert, Hagar's Dog in Dik Browne's comic strip Hagar the Horrible
• Snoopy in Peanuts
• Snowy in The Adventures of Tintin
• Sparky, the gay Dog from South Park
• Spike in Peanuts
• Spike or Butch, bullDog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons
• Spike the BullDog and Chester the Terrier from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• Spike, the family Dog in Rugrats
• Spot the Dog, UK cartoon character
• Spotty Dog a Dalmatian string puppet in The Woodentops on BBC
• Tatty Oldbitt the Sailors' Friend, in The Perishers
• James Thurber's many cartoon Dogs in The Pet Dept. advice column, The Bloodhound and the Bug, et al.
• characters in Disney's Toy Story and Toy Story 2
• Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• 2 Stupid Dogs
• UnderDog, superhero from the cartoon series by the same name, and his main squeeze, Sweet Polly Purebred.
• Wannyan, (Bow-Meow in English version) a half-Dog half-cat alien from the anime series Da! Da! Da! a.k.a. UFO Baby
• Wile E. Coyote (a coyote) in the Road Runner cartoon
• Wilewolf, a tramp wolf from anime Maple Town Stories
• A wolfpack forms an alliance with a tribe of elves in Elfquest

Dogs in song

• Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
• Big Dog by Rolf Harris
• There was a farmer had a Dog and Bingo was his name-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-O!
• Bird Dog by the Everly Brothers (only metaphorically a Dog)
• Bow Wow Wow Wow (Wild Dog on the prowl) sung by Mitch Ryder with Was (Not Was)
• Dogs by Pink Floyd from the Animals album, referring to vicious people
• Dog Eat Dog , songs by AC/DC and Adam and the Ants
• Dog Song by Nellie McCay is about the comfort felt by Dog owners
• Hank the CowDog sings (see Dogs in Literature above)
• Hound Dog , as sung by Big Mama Thornton and Elvis Presley (only metaphorically a Dog)
• 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
• I Wanna Be Your Dog , as performed by Iggy Pop and The Stooges
• Jake in Feed Jake by the Pirates of the Mississippi
• Jingle Bells as performed by the Singing Dogs
• Let Sleeping Dogs Die by The Mission UK
• Little Gomez , the Chihuahua in the song of the same name by Eric Bogle
• Me and You and a Dog Named Boo by Peter Shelley, Lobo
• Old Dog Tray by Stephen Foster
• Old Shep as sung by Elvis Presley and many other country performers
• Old Tige
• One Man and His Dog , English folk song
• Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
• Seamus in song by same name (Meddle album) by Pink Floyd
• Shannon by Henry Gross
• Sick as a Dog by Aerosmith
• The Dog who up and died in Mr. Bojangles
• The Dogs of War by Pink Floyd (a metaphor created by William Shakespeare)
• Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, with his ears cut short and his tail cut long
• Who Let the Dogs Out? by Baha Men
• A Dog that won't get off the furniture in Get Down by Gilbert O'Sullivan
• Longview by Green Day speaks of felling like a Dog in heat
• Dog Years by RUSH makes reference to Sirus the Dog Star

Dogs in video games

• Dribble from WarioWare, Inc.
• K. K. Slider from Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Poochy, from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story
• Miscellaneous Pokemon characters, including Growlithe, Arcanine, Houndour, Houndoom, and others.

Unsorted fictional Dogs

• Anubis Doggie Cruger
• Bonzo the Dog
• Butch the BullDog
• Dijon the Thief
• Dinah the Dachshund
• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
• Foo-Foo
• General Snozzie
• Officer Gertalin
• Colonel Grogg
• Hairy Maclary
• Mrs. Half-Nelson
• Babyface Half-Nelson
• Leader Dog
• The Littlest Hobo
• Mumbly
• Pup Parade
• Red Dog (novel)
• R.I.C. Robotic Interactive Canine assistant to the Power Rangers.
• Rita and Runt
• Sam and Max
• Sam SheepDog and Ralph Wolf
• Space Canine Patrol Agents
• Detective Thursday
• General Tumult
• WE3
• Warden Waddlesworth

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