Dogs in film
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.
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, from the film of the same title
The many dog stars of Good Boy!, including the main character, Hubble, a Border Terrier, voiced by Matthew Broderick.
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.
Lady and the Tramp, from Walt Disney's movie of the same name.
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.
Moses, the chalk outline dog in Dogville
Old Yeller (1957), a children's film, originally a novel by Fred Gipson
Otis, the Pug in The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Toto in The Wizard of Oz
Einstein and Copernicus in the Back to the Future Trilogy
Milo, Stanley Ipkiss' dog in The Mask
Frank, the alien dog in Men in Black
Hooch, the Dogue de Bordeaux costar of Turner and Hooch
Fang, Hagrid's mastiff in the Harry Potter movies.
Fluffy, the three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
A transfigured Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Brussels Griffon in As Good as it Gets
The talking dog in A Boy and his Dog
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
Charlie Dog
Chester, spoiled Pomeranian belonging to Cece Babcock on The Nanny
Diefenbaker, the half-wolf dog from Due South
Eddie, the Jack Russell Terrier from Frasier
Flash The Basset Hound from The Dukes of Hazzard
Fred, "Little Ricky's" puppy in I Love Lucy
K-9, a canoid robot in Doctor Who
K-9, sidekick of Marvin the Martian
K-9 Cop
Lassie
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
Porthos, the Beagle owned by Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise
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)
Tiger from The Brady Bunch
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
Dogs in advertising
Andrex toilet tissue adverts' puppy
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
characters in All Dogs Go to Heaven
characters in One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Ace, The Bat-Hound, a German Shepherd Dog and short-term 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
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
CatDog, eponymous star of the Nickelodeon TV show.
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
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
Fat Dog Mendoza
the foot stool in Beauty and the Beast
Fifi the Peke, Pluto's girlfriend
Filya, on the TV screens since 1970s in the Russian (formerly Soviet) Good night, the little ones!
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
Gromit of Wallace and...
Huckleberry Hound, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
Hector the Bulldog from various Sylvester and Tweety cartoons
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 dog associated with the Superman Mythos, DC comics.
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
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, Hanna-Barbera
Penny Dog, a friend of Minnie Mouse
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, the 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
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.
Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Doo's nephew.
Slinky in Disney's Toy Story
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
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.
Wile E. Coyote (a coyote) in the Road Runner cartoon
A wolfpack forms an alliance with a tribe of elves in Elfquest
Dogs in song
"Big Dog" by Rolf Harris
"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?
"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)
"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"
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
Cabal, King Arthur's dog
Canes Venatici, constellation of the hunting dogs
Cerberus (demon of the pit), the hound of Hades in Greek mythology (also his brother, Orthrus)
Chontamenti, in Egyptian mythology
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
Hecate, in Greek mythology
Laelaps, in Greek mythology
Marea, in Greek mythology
Sirius, in Greek mythology
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 James Kjelgaard, some of which were also Disneyfied
Boots, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling
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)
the Disreputable Dog, in Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
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 Engells Wilder.
Jock, from Jock of the Bushveld, by Sir Percy FitzPatrick, a South African classic first published in 1907
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
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
Patrasche, the dog in A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
Ribsy, companion of Henry Huggins and character in numerous novels for young readers by Beverly Cleary
Rowf and Snitter, the main characters in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs
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
Spot the Dog, cartoon dog in the UK
Toto in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Timmy in the Famous Five series of books by Enid Blyton
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)
Yellow Dog Dingo, dog in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Dogs famous in their own right
Balto, final lead dog of sled-dog team that delivered medicine from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska to save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic. The lead dog for most of the trip was Togo.
Belka, a dog aboard Sputnik 5.
Hachiko, a symbol of loyalty in Japan, now honored by a statue in Tokyo.
Greyfriars Bobby, a dog loyal to its master long after the master's death.
Laika, the dog aboard Sputnik 2.
Nipper, the HMV (His Master's Voice) dog.
Old Shep, after seeing the coffin of his master loaded onto a train in Fort Benton, Montana, Old Shep maintained a vigil at the station for over five years.
Pal, the dog who played Lassie in the movie Lassie Come Home, based on the novel by Eric Knight.
Pavlov's dog, who drools saliva involuntarily when hearing the sound of a bell (a signal of "dinner's ready!").
Petra, the first Blue Peter dog.
Pickles, discovered the Jules Rimet trophy (the Football World Cup) after it had been stolen in England in 1966.
Rico, a dog with a huge vocabulary.
Robot, dog who discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux.
Strelka, a dog aboard Sputnik 5.
Shep the Border Collie, another Blue Peter dog.
Stubby, an American Pit Bull Terrier, the most decorated American war dog in World War II.
Togo, lead dog for most of the journey of sled-dog team that delivered medicine from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska to save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic.
Famous pets of Presidents and their wives
Barney, U.S. President George W. Bush's Scottish Terrier.
Buddy, U.S. President Clinton's chocolate Labrador Retriever
Checkers, U.S. President Nixon's Cocker Spaniel, made famous in the Checkers speech
Jack, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's terrier.
Murray of Fala Hill (or Fala), U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Scottish Terrier, given by his cousin, Margaret Suckley, and depicted in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
Manchu, Alice Roosevelt's small black Pekingese which she received as a gift from the last empress of China.
Millie, U.S. First Lady Barbara Bush's Springer Spaniel.
Pete, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Terrier, who bit so many people he was exiled from the White House.
Sailor Boy, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's Chesapeake Bay Retriever.
Skip, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's mongrel.
Spot "Spotty" Fetcher, U.S. President George W. Bush's English Springer Spaniel , named after Scott Fletcher, a former Texas Rangers baseball player.
Famous pets of other famous people
Boatswain, favorite pet of Lord Byron. See the Byron article for the poet's famous "Epitaph to a dog".
Boy, Prince Rupert of the Rhine's dog who went into battle with him
Centaur Pendragon, Rudolph Valentino's Irish Wolfhound
Diamond, Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog.
Nigger, a black Labrador Retriever who gave his name as the codename for the Dam Busters mission in World War II. (He was given the name solely because he was black, but it is usually edited out of modern versions of the film about the mission.)
Pompe, Charles XII of Sweden's dog.
Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland during the expedition.
