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)
- Dip, in Catalan myth
- Fenris, a monstrous wolf, offspring of Loki and Angrboda in Norse mythology
- Fu Dog, Chinese guardians
- Gabriel Hounds (Cwn Annwn), ghost hounds of the land of the dead
- Garm, a four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology
- Hecuba, in Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce dog
- Laelaps, in Greek mythology
- 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.
- 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
- 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 have to be there)
- 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 (possibly a Great Dane) in the Harry Potter books (in the movies, Fang is a 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 Chtulhu mythos
- Howard, the dog in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe
- Huan, The great wolfhound of Valinor, friend and helper of Beren and Lúthien, 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
- 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
- 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, dust-bunny fluff and a red bow to clear his peepers
- Old Dan and Little Ann from Where the Red Fern Grows
- 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
- 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
- Spot the Dog, cartoon dog in the UK
- Tiger, the dog of Arthur Gordon Pym in A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe 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.
- Babe (movie) 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
- 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.
- 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 à 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
- 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
- Doidle, spoiled dog of Vicky the Babysitter in The Fairly Oddparents
- Dreyfus, the St. Bernard mix on Empty Nest
- Duke, Jed Clampett's Bloodhound on The Beverly Hillbillies
- Earnest, Dave Barry's dog on Dave's World
- Eddie, the Jack Russell Terrier from Frasier
- Fang (or Dog), Columbo's Basset hound
- Flash The Basset Hound from The Dukes of Hazzard
- Fred, "Little Ricky's" puppy in I Love Lucy
- 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) (http://mingo.gmxhome.de/kr/wp/rex_team_1024x768.jpg)
- 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
- 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
- Yukon King, Sgt. Preston's Husky on Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
Dogs in advertising
Cartoons, animation, puppets
- Andy, the faithful St. Bernard in the comic strip Mark Trail
- characters in All Dogs Go to Heaven
- characters in One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Ace, The Bat-Hound, a Black and Straw GSD and a member of the Batman mythos of DC comics.
- Astro from The Jetsons
- Baby Cinnamon, friend of Hello Kitty
- Bad Dog! An early animated computer screen saver
- Bandit, Jonny Quest's terrier
- Belle, the white mountain dog, co-star of Belle et Sébastien
- 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
- Beauregard, the Bloodhound in Walt Kelly's Pogo
- 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. Voiced by Vic Reeves.
- Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Corneil, talking dog from Corneil and Bernie.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog
- Cubitus, the fat round white dog, from the eponymous Belgian comic by Dupa (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 UK translation of the Asterix comic books
- Dogtanian, the three Muskehounds and the majority of the other characters in the series
- Dr. Doppler, humanoid canine in Disney's Treasure Planet
- Dougal, a hairy philosophical dog in stop-motion animated show The Magic Roundabout (called "Pollux" in the French original)
- Droopalong, Sheriff Ricochet Rabbit's sidekick
- Ein the corgi in the anime series Cowboy Bebop
- Elektra, the dog of Cathy
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- characters in Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp
- characters in Disney's The Fox and the Hound
- characters in Disney's Oliver and Company
- characters in Disney's Toy Story and Toy Story 2
- Percy in Disney's Pocahontas
- Jasper, Brian Griffin's effeminate gay cousin, Family Guy
- 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
- the little dog 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
- Menchi, a Chow Chow, pet and "emergency ration" of Excel in Excel Saga (see also Taboo meat)
- 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
- Odie in Garfield
- Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy by Hanna-Barbera
- Penny Dog, a friend of Minnie Mouse
- Pero, the cyborg dog of Higeoyaji in the manga Astro Boy
- Pluto, Disney character, a dog with dog characteristics
- Pochacco, friend of Hello Kitty
- Pooch, a minor character in “Sinfest”
- 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)
- Reddy, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy
- Ren Höek, 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
- Sam Sheepdog, adversary of Ralph Wolf from Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf (Looney Tunes)
- Samson, from the Belgian Samson and Gert television series
- Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog (known for saying "Arf")
- Santa's Little Helper, from The Simpsons
- Satchel Pooch in Get Fuzzy
- Scamp, Disney character, a puppy born to the dogs Lady and the Tramp
- Scooby-Doo, A Great Dane with cropped ears.
- Scooby-Dum, A Great Dane with cropped ears.
- Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's nephew.
- Slinky in Disney's Toy Story
- Snert, Hagar's dog in Dik Browne's comic strip Hagar the Horrible
- Snoopy in Peanuts
- Snowy in The Adventures of Tintin
- Sparky, the gay dog from South Park
- Spike in 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.
- 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
- "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
- "Goodbye, Charlie Dog" by himself?
- 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 Prokofiev
- Seamus in song by same name (Meddle album) by Pink Floyd
- "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
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