Dogs in literature
- Argos, the faithful dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
- Barnabas, the talking canine companion of first Destruction and later Delirium in The Sandman.
- Blood, the main character's dog in the book A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison.
- Bob, the title character in Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness
- Boots, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling
- 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
- Funny dog, [CoCo the Blogging Dog]http://www.cocothebloggingdog.com, blogs about life as a dog.
- Cafall, a dog belonging to King Arthur (occasionally spelled "Cabal")
- Cerberus from Greek Mythology, the three-headed hellhound of Hades
- Chief from The Fox and the Hound
- Copper from The Fox and the Hound
- Cujo the St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King (later a movie)
- Dingo, in A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
- Dingus, in Dingus Dreaming and The Canine Condition by Alex A. Vardamis
- Dog, the hellhound from "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- 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 Pie and the Patty Pan
- Effdee, the protagonist on the fantasy webcomic Anema: Age of the Robots
- Einstein, the golden retriever in Dean Koontz's book Watchers
- 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 movies, Fang is a Neapolitan Mastiff)
- Fluke, the title character in Fluke by James Herbert
- Fluffy, the three-headed dog (similar to Cerberus) in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Fly, the collie who 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
- Gaspode, an unusually clever dog who talks, in various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
- Hank, a cowdog in the Hank the Cowdog series by John R. Erickson
- "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!"
- 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.
- Jack from The Last Dog on Earth
- Jasper, Max de Winter's spaniel at Manderley in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (novel)
- Jenny, the star of Maurice Sendak's Higglety-Pigglety Pop, or, There Must Be More To Life
- Jip, the lapdog of Dora Spenlow, David Copperfield's first wife (Charles Dickens).
- Jip, one of Doctor Doolittle's animal companions in the books by Hugh Lofting
- 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)
- Kazak, the hound of space, from The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Kep, the Collie, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck and other books
- Krypto, a white dog from the planet Krypton who was shot to Earth in a test rocket by Jor-El and subsequently found by young Clark Kent, his original owner on Krypton.
- 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
- The Learned English Dog (LED) in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
- 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.
- Montmorency Three Men in a Boat
- Mouse, Harry's dog in The Dresden Files
- 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
- 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
- "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
- 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
- Prince Terrian, Leslie Burke's (and the Burke parents') dog in the novel and 2007 movie, Bridge to Terabithia.
- Pugnax, a literate mutt who is the associate of the Chums of Chance in Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day"
- Ralph the famous blue dog living in North Tonawanda, NY
- Ribsy, companion of Henry Huggins and character in numerous novels for young readers by Beverly Cleary
- 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.
- Rumbo, a man reincarnated as a red setter (and subsequently as a red squirrel) in Fluke by James Herbert
- Scamper, golden spaniel belonging to Peter and Janet in Enid Blyton's Secret Seven series of young children's mystery novels
- Searchlight, the heroic sled-dog who 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
- 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
- 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
- Timmy: The fifth member of Enid Blyton's Famous Five
- The unnamed narrator of Franz Kafka's short story, Investigations of a Dog (1922)
- Thor, German Shepherd in the horror novel of the same name. It was eventually made into a film called Bad Moon
- 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
- 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
- Toby, the dog used by Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of 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
- Tricki Woo, Mrs. Pumphrey's pekingese in If only they could talk (Book title in UK. All creatures great and small in the U.S.) by James Herriot
- White Fang, the main character in Jack London's book of the same name
- 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
Dogs in film
- See also Category:Films about dogs
- Any one of the 101 Dalmations in either of the movies with the same title One Hundred and One Dalmations
- Andrew, the family dog from Mary Poppins.
- Asta, the dog of Nick & Nora Charles, in the various Thin Man films.
- Babycakes, from Beethoven's 5th
- Baleia, tragic heroine of the 1963 Brazilian classic Vidas Secas. The dog actress, Piaba, was celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival amidst controversy over the dog's (simulated) death scene.
- Baxter, Ron Burgundy's beloved dog in Anchorman.
- Beauty and Beast, from The Hills Have Eyes film series
- Beethoven, the St. Bernard hero of the Beethoven movie series.
- Benji, star of several movies.
- Betsey, from Bowfinger
- Bingo from the movie 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 movie of the same name.
- Brandy, from First Kid
- Bruiser from Legally Blonde
- Buckley, Ari and Uzi's hound dog from The Royal Tenenbaums which survives a plane crash, and later faces further tribulations.
- Butler, Captain Kirk's Great Dane from Star Trek Generations
- Buddy, the dog from the Air Bud movie series.
- Buster, from The Bodyguard
- Buster, from Monkeybone
- Camille, Rottweiller 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
- 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, from Joe Dirt
- Charile 2, from Joe Dirt
- Cerberus, greyhound in 2004 comedy Man About Dog
- Cherokee, Sydney Prescott's golden retriever from Scream 3
- Cho Cho, from 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
- Dickey, from the Little Rascals.
- Dogmatix, Obelix's dog from the Asterix and Obelix comic series
- Dog, Max's dog in Mad Max 2, an Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler
- Eight Below
- Buck
- Dewey
- Maya
- Max
- Old Jack
- Shadow
- Shorty
- Truman
- Dolly Martin from Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
- Duke, from Swiss Family Robinson
- Edison, from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Einstein, Doc Brown's sheepdog in Back to the Future
- Fang, from Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
- 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
- George in Bringing Up Baby, played by Asta (see this list, above).
- George, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Grunt, the red nose American Pit Bull Terrier, portrayed by "Bama Red" in Flash Dance
- Henry, from Heart Condition
- Hercules, the baseball-eating mastiff from The Sandlot
- Hooch, the Dogue de Bordeaux costar of Turner and Hooch
- Itchy, from Scorched
- Jack from Lost & Found
- 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
- Lenny the Wonder Dog
- Leslie a homosexual dog from Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
- Luca, from Garfield: The Movie
- Lucky, from Dr. Dolittle
- Lucky, from Knight Rider
- Marie, the Dachshund from The Shrink Is In
- Matisse, Dave Whiteman's Border collie in Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- Marit, Mette Harrison's Black Lab in The Princess and the Hound
- Michelangelo, St. Bernard Beethoven's double à la The Prince and the Pauper in Beethoven's 4th
- Lady and The Tramp in Lady And The Tramp
- Milo, Stanley Ipkiss' dog 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
- Nanna from Disney's "Peter Pan"
- Nanook and Thorn from The Lost Boys
- Odie, a dog from Garfield, the Film, and its sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
- Old Yeller (1957), a children's film, 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.
- Perdita the dalmatian (also known as Perdy) from Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Polly PureBred, from Underdog
- Pongo the dalmatian from Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- 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
- Quark, Honey I shrunk the Kids
- Rexxx/Dewy, from Firehouse Dog
- Riff Raff, from Underdog
- 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.R
- Reno, from the movie Top Dog starring Chuck Norris
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