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This is a list of fictional dogs from literature, movies etc. (It also includes some real dogs due to the proliferation of reality television shows and advertising). For mythological dogs, see Category:Mythological dogs. For real/famous dogs, see List of dogs.

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 .
  • 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
  • Cafall, a dog belonging to King Arthur (occasionally spelled "Cabal")
  • Cerberus from Greek Mythology, the 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
  • Duchess, the dog who thought she swallowed a patty pan, in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan
  • 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 (talking dog), 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scamper, golden spaniel belonging to Peter and Janet in Enid Blyton's Secret Seven series of young children's mystery novels
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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 had several movies.
  • Betsey, from Bowfinger
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Einstein, Doc Bro

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