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Hachikō, an Akita famed for his exceptional loyalty

The following is a list of individual dogs.

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Television

  • Bouncer, played a dog also called Bouncer in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
  • Bullet, "the Wonder Dog", a black and silver AKC registered German Shepherd (originally: "Bullet Von Berge") was a regular on the '50s TV show The Roy Rogers Show; his taxidermic remains (along with Trigger) were displayed at The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum and he was sold in 2010 at Christie's for $35,000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Athletes

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  • Master McGrath, an Irish Greyhound whose racing victories and fame gained him an audience with the British Royal Family.
  • Mick the Miller, a racing Greyhound, was the first greyhound to win the English Derby in successive years and the first greyhound to run a Template:Convert course in under 30 seconds.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Snip Nua, an Irish racing Greyhound partly owned by comedian Dara Ó Briain. Snip Nua's racing was viewed by 3 million UK viewers on the show Three Men Go to Ireland.

Faithful dogs

Faithful after owner's death

  • Canelo in Cádiz, Spain, used to walk with his owner to the hospital where he was receiving dialysis treatment. In 1990 his owner died at the hospital. Canelo died outside the hospital after waiting for 12 years. The town of Cádiz put his name to a street and a plaque in his honor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Capitán, a German Shepherd, ran away from his home in central Argentina, after the death of his owner Miguel Guzmán in 2006. About a week later, Guzmán's family found Capitán standing guard at Guzmán's grave after finding the cemetery on his own. When brought home, Capitán again ran away back to the grave of his former owner. He stood vigil over his owner's grave and received provisions from the cemetery staff so he did not need to leave.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Capitán died in 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Dżok ("Jock"), the dog.<ref>See Pomnik psa Dżoka in Polish Wikipedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Throughout the entire year (1990–1991) Dżok was seen waiting in vain at the Rondo Grunwaldzkie roundabout in Kraków, Poland, to be fetched back by his owner, who had died there.
  • Fido, a mixed-breed dog, whose owner, Carlo Soriani, had died in an air raid over Borgo San Lorenzo (near Florence, in Italy) in 1943, during World War II. Fido waited in vain, for the following 14 years, for Soriani's return, going daily to the bus stop in Luco del Mugello (a Template:Lang of Borgo) where the man used to get off after coming home from work.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier in Edinburgh, Scotland, was loyal to his owner long after his owner's death in 1858. Until Bobby's death 14 years later, he reportedly spent every night at his owner's grave.<ref name="Scotland's Most Faithful Dog">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Hachikō, an Akita who became a symbol of loyalty in Japan, is now honored by a statue in Tokyo. Hachikō is famous for his loyalty to his long-dead owner Hidesaburō Ueno, by returning to the train station and waiting for his return, every day for the next nine years during the time the train was scheduled to arrive.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Kostya, in the mid-1990s in Tolyatti, Russia – a man and a girl died in a car crash during the summer of 1995, leaving their dog as the only survivor. The German Shepherd, named Constantine aka Kostya or Faithful Kostya by the locals, kept coming to the same spot for the next seven years braving freezing winters and hot summers. Loyalty – a bronze statue honouring the dog's loyalty was placed on that spot in 2003 by the city authorities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ruswarp, a Border Collie who disappeared while hiking with his owner Graham Nuttall in the Welsh Mountains near Llandrindod Wells on 20 January 1990. On 7 April, a hiker discovered Nuttall's body near a mountain stream, where Ruswarp had been standing guard for 11 weeks. The 14-year-old dog was so weak he had to be carried off the mountain, and died shortly after Nuttall's funeral.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Seaman, the Newfoundland belonging to explorer Meriweather Lewis, would not eat or leave his owner's grave, and died of grief.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • Shep, belonging to a sheepherder who died in Fort Benton, Montana, in August 1936 followed his owner's casket to the train station and fashioned a den under the depot platform after the body was shipped back east. For the next five and a half years, Shep met every passenger train arriving there—four a day—sniffing at the passengers and baggage car doors. His vigil became widely publicized including a feature in "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Passengers took the Havre to Great Falls rail line just to see the dog, and he received so much fan mail that the Great Northern Railroad assigned a secretary to help with responses. On 12 Jan. 1942, Shep was struck and killed by an arriving train. AP and UPI issued his obituary nationwide; thousands sent condolences and hundreds attended his funeral. The Great Northern erected an obelisk at his gravesite on a bluff overlooking the depot and town. In 1994, the citizens of Fort Benton further memorialized the dog with a heroic bronze erected on the town's steamboat levee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Theo, an English Springer Spaniel belonging to Lance Corporal Liam Tasker of the British Army. Theo was used to sniff out roadside bombs in Afghanistan. In 2010, Theo and Tasker were in a firefight with insurgents, killing Tasker. Theo died later at a British army base from a fatal seizure, although many believe he died from a broken heart. Tasker's body and Theo's ashes were returned to England, where Tasker's family was presented with Theo's ashes in a private ceremony. In October 2012, Theo was posthumously honored with the Dickin Medal, Britain's highest award for bravery by animals.<ref>"British army dog joins list of animal war heroes" – Yahoo! News</ref>
  • Waghya, meaning "tiger" in Marathi, was the pet dog of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji. After Shivaji's death, the dog mourned and is said to have jumped into his owner's funeral pyre and immolated himself. A statue was put up on a pedestal next to Shivaji's tomb at Raigad Fort.<ref>"Notable Dog: Waghya" Template:Webarchive Positive Canine Guidance</ref>
  • K9 Big Wolf (Template:Lang-zh) - Police Dog of the (now-defunct) People's Armed Police Template:Ill Dehong detachment. On 22 August 2011, his handler Private Yao Yuanjun (姚元军) drowned while fighting with drug traffickers, and several months later "Big Wolf" was filmed on national TV, still waiting for his handler to return at their training location near the Shweli River, gaining fame on Chinese social media; "Big Wolf" continues to wait at the same training site for over a decade.<ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Homing dogs

  • Baekgu, the Korean Jindo Dog, after being sold by the original owner due to economic hardship to a new owner 300 km away, came back to the original owner after seven months.
  • Bobbie the Wonder Dog, after accidental abandonment on a cross-country trip, Bobbie made his way back over Template:Convert to his family's home.

Other faithful dogs

  • Bob the Railway Dog, a loyal traveller and drivers' companion on the South Australian Railways in the late 19th century.
  • Fidèle, a famous dog that could usually be seen sleeping out of his window in Bruges.
  • Kelsey, a dog, was hailed a hero after he rescued his owner who became paralyzed when he slipped and fell in the snow. Kelsey stayed by his side licking his face to keep him warm for nearly 20 hours.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Mari: A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies is based on a true story in the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake. Mari gave birth to three puppies. That spring, animals behaved strangely, foreshadowing something major to come. On 23 October 2004, a major earthquake, which later became known as the Chūetsu earthquake struck and devastated the whole village. At that time, only grandfather and Aya were at home, and they were pinned down by a wardrobe that collapsed onto them. Mari quickly moved her puppies to a safe place and successfully rescued grandfather and Aya from that disaster.
  • Nig, a mixed-breed dog taken in as a puppy in 1932 by the construction workers of the Hoover Dam.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Considered their mascot, he accompanied workers daily to and from the site, even carrying a sack lunch.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Patsy Ann, known as the "Official Greeter of Juneau". She was a bull terrier that greeted ships as they docked in Juneau.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Pompey, a Pug that foiled an assassination attempt on the life of William The Silent, Prince of Orange.
  • Red Dog (Pilbara), a Kelpie who wandered around the outback Western Australia looking for its owner.
  • Saint Guinefort, a legendary French dog, is venerated with a tradition almost identical to that of Gelert, above.
  • Taro and Jiro, two Sakhalin huskies that survived a year of abandonment on the frozen continent of Antarctica until members of a Japanese Expedition team rescued them.
  • Zander, a 70-pound (32 kg), approximately 7-year-old Samoyed-husky mix who escaped his home and traveled more than two "hard miles" (fording a stream, crossing a busy highway, and navigating complex neighborhoods) to arrive at a hospital in an area where he had never been, where he was stopped by a hospital employee who called the cell phone number on his dog tag and reached Zander's owner in a room inside the hospital where he had been lying for several days recuperating from an illness.<ref name=Zander>Template:Cite news</ref>

Working dogs

War dogs

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  • Bart, a German Shepherd working with SEAL Team Six who was killed along with 38 people which consisted of U.S. special operation troops, aviators and Afghan commandos in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Kurt, a Doberman Pinscher "Devil Dog" credited with saving the lives of at least 250 U.S. Marines during the 1944 Battle of Guam by alerting them to Japanese soldiers. Kurt was mortally wounded on patrol, on 23 July, becoming the first Marine K-9 combat casualty. He was the first to be buried in what would become the National War Dog Cemetery in Guam, where his likeness in bronze sits atop the World War II War Dog Memorial that includes names inscribed for the Dobermans who died while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps on Guam.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Chesty, one of a family of bulldogs, serving as the official mascot of Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. These dogs are actually enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, most attaining the rank of corporal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Chips, the most decorated hero war dog of World War II.
  • Conan, a Delta Force dog who participated in the Barisha raid in 2019.
  • Crumstone Irma, a German Shepherd who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings, awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945.
  • Gander, a Newfoundland, was posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal for his feats during the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II.
  • Gunner, Canine air-raid early warning system during the bombing of Darwin in World War II.
  • Horrie the Wog Dog, found in Egypt by Australian Forces in 1942 during World War II, saved the lives of many Australian soldiers. Horrie was refused admission back to Australia after service in Europe; he was saved by his mates smuggling him to his new home in Australia.
  • Jet of Iada a German Shepherd, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts.
  • Judy, a ship's dog who served with the Royal Navy, was the only animal to have been officially registered as a Japanese prisoner of war. She survived the death camps on the Burma Railway and was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1946.
  • Just Nuisance, a Great Dane, the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy, was buried with full military honours upon his death in 1944.
  • Lava, a mixed breed dog, was adopted as a puppy by the 1st Battalion 3rd Marines Unit nicknamed the Lava Dogs. He was rescued from Iraq in 2005 by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman. Lava is the subject of the book From Baghdad, With Love by Kopelman and Melinda Roth.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Lex, the first actively working Military Working Dog to be adopted by family members of their handler, prior to being retired.
  • Lucca, a dog working for the U.S. Marine Corps who was awarded the Dickin Medal, the equivalent of the Victoria Cross for dogs.
  • Moustache, a barbet said to have participated in several battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • Nemo A534, a German Shepherd who saved the life of his handler in battle despite having been shot in the nose and losing an eye.
  • Nigger, a black Labrador Retriever belonging to Guy Gibson, gave his name as the codename for the Dam Busters mission in World War II. His name is usually edited out of modern versions of the film about the mission due to the offensiveness of the term to modern viewers.
  • Patron, an explosives detection dog that received the Order for Courage third class during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Philly, a mutt and World War I "hero";<ref name=Philly(1996)>Template:Cite news</ref> mascot of Company A of the 315 Infantry, 79th Division ("Philadelphia's Own").<ref name=Philly(1997)>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Rags, a Signal Corps mascot during World War I.
  • Rex (E168), a U.S. Marine military working dog handled and later owned by Corporal Megan Leavey whose story was chronicled in the 2017 film Megan Leavey.
  • Rifleman Khan, a German Shepherd who won the Dickin Medal for bravery.
  • Rip, a World War II search and rescue dog.
  • Rob, a Collie working dog on a farm in Shropshire until 1942, when his owners enlisted him as a war dog. Assigned to the Special Air Service at the base in Wivenhoe Park, Essex. Subsequently awarded the Dickin Medal in February 1945.
  • Sallie Ann Jarrett, Civil War mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry regiment, whose bronze statue is part of the regimental monument at Gettysburg.
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  • Sasha, bomb-sniffing dog, posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal.
  • Sinbad, the U.S. Coast Guard's most famous mascot. He was adopted by a crewman from the cutter Template:USCGC prior to World War II. He was so beloved by the crew that they actually enlisted him in the Coast Guard. Sinbad had a book written about him.<ref>Foley, G.R., Jr. (1945) Sinbad of the Coast Guard. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Rescue dogs

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Guide, service, and facility dogs

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  • Wanda the Yellow Retriever/Lab cross, guide dog to Mhairi Thurston. Wanda was The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association's first 'Overall Guidedog of the Year' in 2004. Wanda retired from service in 2011 and lived a happy retirement with owner Mhairi in Dundee, Scotland until her death in 2017.<ref>GDBA (2005) Guidedogs Today. London: GDBA.</ref>

Dogs that aided exploration

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Police dogs

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Other working dogs

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Other heroic dogs

Not all dogs that are famous for saving lives are working dogs. Famous lifesaving dogs with no special training or job include the following:

Saved abandoned babies

  • Jade, a German Shepherd from Birmingham, England, who saved an abandoned baby. He was walking in a park with his owner when he ran off and laid down, not moving until his master approached, next to an abandoned baby in a bag in the woods. Jade's owner called an ambulance, which took the baby to the hospital, and the baby was saved.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • La China, a free-ranging dog who heard the cries of a newborn infant that had been exposed by her mother in a field near a shanty town outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina. La China found the baby and, without leaving any bite marks on her, brought her back to the relative shelter and warmth of a corner where she was keeping and nursing her litter of puppies. In so doing, La China had brought the baby close enough to people to be heard and saved.<ref name=Schweimler>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Mkombozi, a stray dog from the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, saved the life of an abandoned baby. On 9 May 2005, Mkombozi while scavenging for food along a road, found an abandoned baby in a package. She dragged it across a road, pulled it through a fence, into a village, to a shed where she was nursing newborn puppies. In doing so, she had brought the baby close enough for its cries to be heard by a woman and her children, who saved the baby. The baby was given the name "Angel" and adopted. The dog was named "Mkombozi", which is Swahili for "savior", and taken in by the local SPCA.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Others

  • Flash, a German Shepherd, was a two-year-old loyal companion donated to the war on 10 September 1942, by Eleanor (Hildenbrand) and Paul F. Demerski. He was honored for his services and awards by the Syracuse Herald Journal newspaper. Dogs for Defense out of Washington D.C. awarded Flash for his bravery and loyalty in the field during World War II. He began his service at the train station in Solvay, New York, and continued on to Hicksville, Long Island, then deployed with his handlers. Mr. and Mrs. Demerski received a letter to inform them of Flash's completion of sentry duty training for the army located at the War Dog Reception and Training Center, Quartermaster Depot, Front Royal, Virginia.
  • Buddy, a German Shepherd, was hailed as a hero in 2010 for guiding Alaska State Troopers through winding back roads to a fire at his owners' workshop when their GPS had stopped working.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Duke, a mixed breed rescue dog in Portland, Connecticut who had been with his family for six years, saved the life of 9-week-old Harper Brousseau. On the night of 7 October 2012, Duke jumped into the Brousseau's bed and began shaking uncontrollably. This caused the Brousseaus to wake up and get out of bed. Upon checking on their daughter, they found she had stopped breathing. They then called 911 and the paramedics were able to revive Harper.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • George, a Jack Russell Terrier who shielded a group of children in Manaia, New Zealand, from a pair of attacking pit bulls. He was killed by the pit bulls.<ref>"Dog Bravery: Jack Russell George Awarded PDSA Gold Medal For Saving Children From Pit Bull Terriers" Sky News Template:Webarchive</ref>
  • Gnarley, an American Staffordshire Terrier mix from Sunbright, Tennessee, saved his owner's life when his coworker and roommate attacked him with a machete while working out of state on 26 July 2019. Gnarley made a full recovery from his injuries. An emergency surgery for a fractured skull and long laceration was needed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Kabang, a shepherd mix Aspin from Zamboanga City, Philippines who became famous when she saved two children from a potentially fatal motorcycle crash. As a result of the accident, Kabang lost her upper snout.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Lucy, a pit bull who shielded her owner's mother-in-law from an ex-boyfriend with a knife. The man stabbed Lucy multiple times, and she died on 19 December 2015, after going into cardiac arrest from blood loss.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Polo, a 6-year-old mixed breed in Baltimore, Maryland, who saved the life of 8-month-old Vivian Poremski. On 15 August 2016, a candle sparked a fast-moving fire in the Poremski home while the mother had stepped out to retrieve an item from her car. Polo protected Vivian from the flames by laying on top of her, dying in the process.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Saihu (赛虎 = "like a tiger"), from Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, southern China. On 28 November 2003, a chef was preparing dinner for almost 30 people at a driving school. The smell of the cooking meat attracted some nearby puppies to the school, along with their mother, Saihu. The chef threw some scraps of meat from the pot to the puppies, but strangely, the puppies' mother prevented them from eating. Saihu also kept barking at the chef, as well as the people who were preparing to eat. Confused but undeterred, the people prepared to eat the meal the chef had made. Saihu became panicked and ran around barking at the guests, before finally eating all the scraps the chef had thrown to the dogs. After just a few minutes, Saihu fell dead on the floor. The guests, shocked at the dog's death, stopped eating the meal. They called a policeman as well as some doctors, who discovered poison in the meat. No people or puppies died. Everyone was convinced that Saihu must have smelled the poison and had saved the people and her puppies by sacrificing herself. The people of Jiujaing were so grateful to Saihu that they set up a tomb in a human graveyard and a statue to memorialize the dog.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Velvet, a black Labrador Retriever and shepherd mixed breed cattle dog, who helped save three climbers when they became stranded on Mount Hood in Oregon on 18 February 2007.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Wangwang (汪汪 Wāngwāng, meaning "wuff wuff"), a dog member of a Chang (張) family in Taipei who woke the family in a night fire. The family woke their neighbors and saved about 30 lives.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Willie, Labrador retriever, who saved his friend, six-year-old John Stenglein, from a wolf attack at a logging camp nearby on 26 April 2000 in Icy Bay, Alaska. John and an older boy were playing near the edge of a logging camp when a wolf appeared and chased the boys, attacking John when he fell and dragging him towards the woods. Many came running, but only Willie arrived in time to confront the wolf, causing it to drop John before it could make off with him. The others then arrived, the wolf retreated, and John was saved; and then John's father arrived and tracked down and shot the wolf. The wolf was found to have been neither sick nor starving, but habituated to the presence of people. John received 19 laceration and puncture wounds on the back, legs, and buttocks.<ref>McNay, Mark E. and Philip W. Mooney. 2005. Attempted predation of a child by a Gray Wolf, Canis lupus, near Icy Bay, Alaska. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119(2): 197–201.</ref>
  • Leo, a Dachshund, on 9 March 2014, in the city of Pančevo, Serbia, saved the life of an 11-year-old girl from the jaws of a Bullmastiff. He weighed 12 kg, and the Bullmastiff weighed 50 kg. After the fight, Leo had a broken pelvis, distended intestines, and was completely crushed. He succumbed to his injuries after two days. The city of Pančevo erected a monument in the park where the owners constantly sat. The monument reads 'For all the little heroes with big hearts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Bruno, a seven years old molecular bloodhound belonging to the Endas canine unit, an Italian sports promotion association. Bruno had saved nine lives and had even received a commendation from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He was found dead in Taranto on 4 July 2025, killed by unknown assailants using sausages laced with nails.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Real dogs in literature

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Mascots

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Models

  • Archie, owned by Andy Warhol and Jed Johnson, modeled for Warhol
  • Boo, a Pomeranian and social media icon with the tagline of "World's Cutest Dog".
  • Man Ray and Fay Ray, Weimaraners, subjects of their owner, photographer William Wegman.
  • Mickey, an Irish Wolfhound, and Cracker, a bull terrier, acquired in 1925 by Cecil Aldin and the models for his popular book, Sleeping Partners, which humorously illustrated the dogs’ habit of sleeping on, under, around, or tangled up with each other.<ref>Aldin, Cecil (1929). Sleeping Partners. Reissued 2000, London: Souvenir Press Ltd. Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Mr. Winkle, a very small dog of uncertain breed, belongs to Lara Jo Regan, who has published many photos of Mr. Winkle in various costumes and poses.

Dogs in science

Space dogs

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  • In 1951 Dezik and Tsygan became the first dogs to enter suborbital spaceflight.
  • In 1957 Laika, a female mixed-breed dog, became the first animal to enter orbit when she was launched into space aboard Sputnik 2. Laika's presence led to the mission being dubbed "Muttnik". She was also the first to die in orbit, as no provision was made to return her to the ground.
  • In 1960 Belka and Strelka, two Russian mixed breeds, went into space aboard Sputnik 5 and returned. They were, along with their mice, rats, and rabbit traveling companions, the first animals to survive an orbital flight.<ref name=Space>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Dogs of unusual size

Small dogs

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  • Sylvia, a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier owned by Arthur Marples of Blackburn, England, was the smallest dog in recorded history. The dog died in 1945 when she was almost two years old, at which point she stood Template:Convert tall at the shoulder, measured Template:Convert from nose tip to tail, and weighed Template:Convert.<ref>Choron, Sandra and Harry (2005). Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, Houghton Mifflin, Template:ISBN, page 92.</ref>

Heavy dogs

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Tall dogs

Intelligent dogs

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  • Chaser, a Border Collie, had a vocabulary of 1,022 words, could reason by exclusion, and could recognise objects by the groups they belong to.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Long-lived dogs

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  • Uncle Chichi, who was between 24 and 26. Adopted from a shelter in South Carolina, he was unofficially the oldest dog in the world at the time of his death. His true age could not be determined due to lost birth records.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Show dogs

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Notorious dogs

  • Bane and Hera, a pair of Presa Canarios owned by Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel that were involved in the death of Diane Whipple.
  • Buddha, a Scottish pug trained to give a Nazi salute as a joke by the boyfriend of its owner, Suzanne Kelly. After filming the act and distributing it on YouTube, the boyfriend, Mark Meechan, was found guilty of a hate crime under UK's Communications Act 2003.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Dempsey, condemned to death under the United Kingdom's Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 but finally reprieved after three years of legal battles.
  • Dormie, a purebred Airedale Terrier accused of "murdering" 14 cats, resulting in a sensational and landmark 1921 California trial by jury.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Ugly dogs

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  • Elwood, a Chinese Crested–Chihuahua, mixed breed, was a winner of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in 2007.
  • Miss Ellie, a blind Chinese Crested dog that won the pedigree section of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in 2009.
  • Peggy, a dog that won the title of "Britain's ugliest dog".
  • Sam, a blind Chinese Crested hairless, was the three-time winner of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

Unique dogs

Foundation sires and early dogs

Other notable dogs

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  • Kalu, a dog rescued and rehabilitated by the nonprofit animal rescue organization Animal Aid Unlimited after he was found at a construction site in Udaipur, India with almost his entire face destroyed by maggots. The organization makes videos of their rescues, and this went viral due to the horrible injury and his miraculous recovery. After his recovery, he lived the rest of his life happily and healthily at Animal Aid Unlimited. He died of a sudden heart attack in September 2018.
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  • Natividad, an emaciated stray dog featured in a controversial display by artist Guillermo Vargas Habacuc in the Visual Arts Biennial of Central America, later the subject of widespread rumours on the Internet that he was starved to death by the artist.<ref>Template:Usurped World Society for the Protection of Animals</ref>
  • Negro Matapacos, a dog who participated at many street demonstrations in Santiago, Chile.
  • Oscar, a Pug belonging to a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, was the center of public controversy after his owner assigned an advertising class to make the dog famous.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Pickles, discovered the Jules Rimet trophy (the Football World Cup) after it had been stolen in England in 1966.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Pickles, a dog often cited as the name origin for the sport of pickleball.
  • Presley, the boxer, won the title of the Greatest American Dog in the 2008 CBS television show of the same name.
  • Red Dog, a kelpie–cattle dog cross who travelled around the Pilbara region of Western Australia from 1975 (when his truck-driver owner died), befriending many locals, until his death in 1979, believed to have been caused by deliberate strychnine poisoning.
  • Rigel, erstwhile but perhaps mythical Newfoundland pet of first officer William Murdoch aboard the Template:RMS. Murdoch went down with the ship, but Rigel swam for three hours next to a lifeboat until it was rescued by the Template:RMS. Rigel is renowned as a hero, alerting the Carpathia's captain of the weakened survivors before the ship hit them. Rigel was adopted by crewman Jonas Briggs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Robot, a dog who belonged to a boy named Simon, discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux in 1940.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Saucisse, a candidate at the 2001 election of mayor in Marseille and also a candidate in the TV reality show Secret Story 2009.
  • Scrim, a mixed breed stray rescued from a New Orleans animal shelter who twice escaped potential homes and eluded capture for almost a year, becoming the subject of national news and an icon of New Orleans.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Sensation, the English Pointer featured on the logo of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
  • Star was a mixed-breed female pit bull who was shot by the New York City Police Department in 2012 while she was protecting her homeless owner, who was in the midst of a seizure. Star's shooting was captured on video, and went viral, leading to controversies over police handling of companion dogs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Tawny, a yellow Labrador Retriever who in 1999 gave birth to 18 puppies in her very first litter. For this she received the "Iams Mother of the Year" Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Tika, an Italian Greyhound with a large social media following
  • Tubby, a cocker spaniel, was the only fatality of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster. Tubby died when the bridge fell and his body was never recovered.<ref name="tubby">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Tuna, a Chihuahua/Dachshund cross and internet celebrity.
  • Willie, a handicapped Dachshund who was killed alongside his owner Barbara Weston in 1993. The discovery of his wheelchair alongside their skeletal remains in a septic pit three years later was pivotal in police identifying them, and bringing their killer Stephen Swaim to justice.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Willie Bean, a Golden Retriever, was the focus of several political satires during 2008.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Word, a male Lhasa Apso, was sentenced to death on 4 May 1993 following two biting incidents. He was incarcerated at the Seattle Animal Control Shelter for a total of eight years and 190 days before being released on 10 November 2001, which is the Guinness World Record for the longest time on dog death row.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Fame by proxy to a famous owner

Some dogs are made famous by frequently or prominently appearing in the media with their famous owner.

Dogs of actors and entertainers

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Dogs of artists

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Dogs of musicians

  • Koji and Gustav, two of Lady Gaga's French bulldogs, were stolen from their dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, while out for a walk in Los Angeles, California. Fischer was attacked and shot in the chest, severely wounding him. The dogs were found and returned to Gaga by Jennifer McBride, who was falsely accused of the crime, for a $500,000 reward. The true attackers were later found and arrested.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ziggy, Molly Meldrum's dog, played himself in the 2016 miniseries Molly. It is the fourth dog who Meldrum has named after the David Bowie character Ziggy Stardust
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Dogs of political figures

Dogs of U.S. presidents and their families

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Dogs of writers and poets

  • Boatswain, the favorite pet of Lord Byron, was the subject of the poet's Epitaph to a dog.
  • Cabal, the white German Shepherd belonging to Neil Gaiman, who frequently features in his blog.
  • Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Cocker Spaniel who was the subject of Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography, published in 1933.
  • Jacksie, a small dog belonging to C. S. Lewis in his childhood, died in an accident when Lewis was four years old.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Shortly thereafter, a young Lewis began calling himself Jacksie.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lewis was known to friends and family as Jack for the rest of his life.
  • Josephine, a black miniature Poodle belonging to author Jacqueline Susann, and subject of her memoir Every Night, Josephine!.
  • Marley, a yellow Labrador Retriever, was owned by journalist John Grogan. Marley was a neurotic dog, but proved himself to be a great and memorable pet, as stated in Grogan's book Marley & Me.
  • Marlowe, Stephen King's Pembroke Welsh Corgi, inspired the character of Oy in King's fantasy series The Dark Tower.Template:Citation needed
  • Nero, who belonged to Thomas and Jane Carlyle. He was small, 'part Maltese terrier, part mongrel', black and white, and described by Jane as having 'long white silky hair hanging all about him – and over his eyes which are very large and black'. Arriving in 1849, he stayed with them until his death in 1860.<ref>Holme, Thea. The Carlyles at Home. Oxford University Press, 1979, pp.127–139.</ref>
  • Norbert, a dog who appears in his own picture book series.
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  • Pippin, whose carsickness inspired K. V. Johansen's series of picture books.
  • Trixie Koontz, a retired service dog who died 30 June 2007, purported author of Life is Good: Lessons in Joyful Living and Christmas is Good, companion of Dean Koontz.<ref name="Koontz">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See also

References

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