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A list of fictional dogs from literature, movies etc.

[Legendary/Mythical Dogs] [Dogs in Literature] [Movies] [Television] [Advertising] [Cartoons]

LEGENDARY, MYTHICAL AND FAIRYTALE DOGS
ARGOS, Odysseus's dog (Greek Mythology) 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 (Irish Mythology) CABAL, King Arthur's dog  CANIS MAJOR, (Latin for "Big Dog") Orion's hunting dog CANIS MINOR, (Latin for "Little Dog") Orion's hunting dog CANES VENATICI, (Latin for "hunting dogs" 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 LAIKA, The first dog in space. Laika was aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 in 1957. LE DIABLE, A notorious French dog that smuggled lace and other items across the French border MAREA, in Greek mythology  QIQIRN, in Inuit mythology  SAUR, or SUENING, A dog that was "king" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD.  SIRIUS, in Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major  SOTER, One of 50 watchdogs of ancient Greece that alone survived attack by invaders XOLOTL, in Aztec mythology

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 BOOTS, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling  BOYD, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's dog in Kathy Reich's 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 DUCHESS, the dog 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 FLUFFY, the three-headed dog (similar to Cerberus) in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone  HANK, the Cowdog, the crime fighting 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  HOWARD, the dog in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe  HUAN, The great wolfhound of Valinor, in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Silmarillion  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, a South African classic first published in 1907  JOHN JOINER, the terrier 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  LITTLE ANN, from Where the Red Fern Grows MONTMORENCY, the narrator's unruly Fox Terrier in Three Men in a Boat NANA, the Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie  NERO, the St. Bernard 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 OLD DAN, from Where the Red Fern Grows  PATRASCHE, the dog in A Dog of Flanders by Ouida  ORSON, the black Labrador retriever 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  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 by Beverly Cleary  ROWF, a main character in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs  SCUPPER, from Margaret Wise Brown's children's book, The Sailor Dog 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 SNITTER, a main character in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs 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 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 WINN-DIXIE, from the book Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo and the 2005 film YELLOW DOG DINGO, dog in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

DOGS IN FILM
	APOLLO, TV show Magnum, P.I. 1864-1946 ASTA, in the various The Thin Man films BABE, (movie) featured Border Collies BEETHOVEN, the St. Bernard hero of the movie series Beethoven BENJI, had several movies BLOOD, the talking dog in A Boy and his Dog  COPERNICUS, in the Back to the Future trilogy  DEVIL DOG, The Hound of Hell, from the film of the same title  EINSTEIN, in the Back to the Future trilogy  FRANK, the alien dog in Men in Black  HARVEY, Elliot's dog in E.T.  HOOCH, the Dogue de Bordeaux co-star of Turner and Hooch  HUBBLE, a Border Terrier, main character in Good Boy! 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, in Lassie Come Home (1943) 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 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  NEOS,  Neapolitan Mastiff in Harry Potter series OLD YELLER (1957), a children's film, originally a novel by Fred Gipson  OTIS, the Pug in The Adventures of Milo and Otis  PETE the Pup (or "Petey"), a Pit Bull with a ring around one eye, in the Our Gang PRECIOUS, the white Toy poodle beloved of 'Buffalo Bill' in Silence of the Lambs  RIN TIN TIN, German shepherd who ranked as one of the all-time famous canine movie stars.   SAM, the dog in Dante's Peak who leaps out of a field of boiling-hot lava to safety SPARKY, the Jack Russell terrier brought back to life by the archangel 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 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  FREEWAY, the Lowchen in Hart to Hart television series 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 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 NUNZIO, the Corgi on Dharma and Greg PORTHOS, the Beagle owned by Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise  QUEEGQUEG, Clyde Bruckman's Pomeranian left to Dana Scully on The X-Files REX, from Kommissar Rex (aka Inspector Rex and Rex: A Cop's Best Friend) STINKY, Dharma's Briard mix 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, Mildred's terrier in the British sitcom George & Mildred  WISHBONE, the eponymous Jack Russell Terrier star of a children's educational series YUKON KING, Sgt. Preston's Husky on Sgt. Preston of the Yukon

DOGS IN ADVERTISING
ALEX, advertisement mascot for Stroh's beer 1864-1946 BINGO, advertisement mascot for Cracker Jacks 1864-1946 DINKY, advertisement mascot for Taco Bell 1864-1946 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 (UK) 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, MacKenzie advertising of Budweiser beer 1906-1945 - Bull Terrier  TIGE, advertising Buster Brown shoes 1904-1974 Rebel UBU, Labrador Retriever, mascot of Ubu Productions which produced Family Ties

DOGS IN CARTOONS, COMIC STRIPS, ANIMATION, PUPPETS

ANDY, the faithful St. Bernard in the comic strip Mark Trail  ACE, The Bat-Hound, a Black and Straw GSD and a member of the Batman mythos of DC comics 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  BANDIT, Jonny Quest's terrier  BARFY, comic strip Family Circus 1864-1946 BEAUREGARD, the Bloodhound in Walt Kelly's Pogo BELLE, the white mountain dog, co-star of Belle et S�bastien BELVEDERE, comic strip Belvedere 1864-1946  B. H., CALCUTTA, 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, 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 BUCKLES, comic strip Buckles 1895-1972 BUTCH, bulldog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons  CATDOG, eponymous star of the Nickelodeon TV show. See also List of fictional cats  CHACHA, a dog reincarnated into a toy car, from the anime I Love Bubu Chacha  CHARLIE DOG, "Looney Tunes" character created by Chuck Jones  CHESTER, the Terrier from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies  CHURCHILL, a bulldog in the form of a talking "nodding dog" car accessory, UK television ads 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 DAISY, the Dagwood Bumstead family dog in Blondie DEPUTY DAWG  DINO, in The Flintstones, a metaphorical dog  DINSDALE, the dog from Rubbish, King of the Jumble DOGBERT, the assertive dog owned by the unassertive Dilbert  DOGG, from Milestone Comics' Blood Syndicate DOGGIE DADDY, by Hanna-Barbera  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 DROOPALONG, Sheriff Ricochet Rabbit's sidekick  EDGAR, comic strip For Better or Worse 1911-1967 EIN, the Corgi in the anime series Cowboy Bebop ELECTRA, comic strip Cathy 1902-1984 FARLEY, comic strip For Better or Worse 1911-1998 FAT DOG, Mendoza 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 Good night, the little ones! FLORENCE AMBROSE, a genetically-engineered "Bowman's Wolf" in the comic strip Freefall  FUZZ, comic strip Ziggy 1895-1990 GNASHER, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Gnipper  GNIPPER, Gnasher's son, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace  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  JASPER, Brian Griffin's effeminate gay cousin, Family Guy  KEWPIE, comic strip Born Loser 1903-1965  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  MAGENTA in Blue's Clues MARC ANTONY, Looney Tunes character  MARMADUKE, a Great Dane with an eponymous daily comic strip  MCGRUFF, cartoon crime fighter 1896-1944 MENCHI, a Chow Chow, pet and "emergency ration" of Excel in Excel Saga MUTTLEY, Dick Dastardly's sidekick in Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley MR. PEABODY, from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show  ODIE, comic strip Garfield 1914-1999 OTTO, comic strip Beetle Bailey 1921-1991 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�  RADAR, the Hound Supreme (a pastiche of Krypto, from Alan Moore's revisionism of Supreme)  REDDY, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy  REN H�EK, the asthma-hound Chihuahua in Ren and Stimpy  REX, from Rex the Runt  ROBOWAN, friend of Hello Kitty  ROCKY, main character in Swedish comic Rocky  ROOBARB, title character of a British cartoon series  ROSEBUD, the basselope (Basset hound/Antelope mix) in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip RUFF, comic strip Dennis the Menace 1893-1949  RUFF, comic strip Hi and Lois 1920-1999  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 comic strip Peanuts 1896-1963 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  UNDERDOG, superhero from the cartoon series by the same name WANNYAN, (Bow-Meow in English version) from the anime series Da! Da! Da! aka. UFO Baby  WILE E. COYOTE (a coyote) in the Road Runner cartoon  WILEWOLF, a tramp wolf from anime Maple Town Stories

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