Name
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Breed
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Source
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Author
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Notes
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Addison[1]
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Mutt
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Farley Mowat
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Farley Mowat's dog in the book The Dog Who Wouldn't Be.
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Argos[2][3]
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Odyssey
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Homer
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The faithful dog of Odysseus.
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Baleia[4]
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Vidas Secas
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Graciliano Ramos
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Later adapted into 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.
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Banga[5]
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The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
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Pontius Pilate's dog.
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Baree
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Wolfdog
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Baree, Son of Kazan
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James Curwood
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Son of Gray Wolf and Kazan.
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Bendicò
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Great Dane
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Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Belonging to the central character Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina
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Belle
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Pyrenean Mountain Dog
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Belle et Sébastien
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Cécile Aubry
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Lives with his owner Sebastian in village in the French Alps close to the frontier with Italy.
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Big Red[3][6]
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Irish Setter
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Big Red
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Jim Kjelgaard
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Blood[6][7]
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A Boy and His Dog
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Harlan Ellison
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Later adapted into a film where Blood is voiced by Tim McIntire.
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Blue
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The Sound and the Fury
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William Faulkner
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Bob
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Dumb Witness
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Agatha Christie
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Also released as part of the Agatha Christie's Poirot series.
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Bodger and Luath[3]
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Bull terrier, Labrador Retriever
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The Incredible Journey
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Sheila Burnford
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Based on a true story.
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Buck[2]
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St. Bernard-Scotch Collie
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Call of the Wild
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Jack London[A]
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Adapted in six movies: The Call of the Wild by D. W. Griffith 1908; a second silent film (1923); (1935); 1972 The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon and Call of the Wild 3D (2009).
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Bulls-eye[2][8]
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Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
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Bill Sikes' dog.
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Buster
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Scottish Terrier
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Five Find-Outers
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Enid Blyton
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Belonging to Frederick Algernon Trotteville ("Fatty").
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Cafall[3]
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A dog belonging to King Arthur (occasionally spelled "Cabal" or "Caval").
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Carl
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Rottweiler
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Good Dog, Carl
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Alexandra Day
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Clifford
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Vizsla
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Clifford the Big Red Dog
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Norman Bridwell
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A 25 foot dog. He is friendly, outgoing and helpful, but his sheer size can sometimes cause trouble.
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Crab[2][8]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
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William Shakespeare
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"the sourest natured dog that lives".
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Cujo[3][7]
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St. Bernard
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Cujo
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Stephen King
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A 200-pound Saint Bernard who chases a wild rabbit into a small limestone cave where he contracts cryptic bat rabies and terrorizes Castle Rock, Maine, killing a few residents.
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Dingo
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Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
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Jules Verne
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Diogenes
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Dombey and Son
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Charles Dickens
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Friend of Paul Dombey and later his sister Florence.
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Disreputable Dog[6]
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Lirael and Abhorsen
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Garth Nix
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Einstein[7]
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Golden Retriever
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Watchers
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Dean Koontz
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Eos
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Funeral Games
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Mary Renault
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A beautiful white dog.
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Fang[7]
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Mastiff
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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J. K. Rowling
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Hagrid's dog.
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Fluffy[7]
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Cerberus
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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J. K. Rowling
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Garm
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Farmer Giles of Ham
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Garryowen[3]
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Ulysses
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James Joyce
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Gaspode and Laddie
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Discworld
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Terry Pratchett
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An unusually clever dog that talks and his Wonder Dog client.
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Ginger[9]
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The View from Saturday
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E. L. Konigsburg
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The genius dog of Nadia Diamondstein.
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Ginger Pye[6]
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Ginger Pye
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Eleanor Estes
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Gnaish
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Thunder Oak
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Garry Kilworth
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Go Go Girl and Slinkster Dog
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Weetzie Bat
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Francesca Lia Block
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Gyp
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Adam Bede
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George Eliot
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Adam Bede's dog.
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Hank
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Hank the Cowdog
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John R. Erickson
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Hikaru Lola[10]
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Norwegian Buhund
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Lola the Buhund Book One: The Empty Sky
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Elbot Carman
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Series Protagonist.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles[2][3]
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Hound
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Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Written with the famous line, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
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Huan
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Wolfhound
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The Silmarillion
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Companion of Valinor, friend and helper of Beren and Lúthien.
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Missis, Perdita, Pongo, and other Dalmatians
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Dalmatian
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians[3]
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Dodie Smith
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Subsequently made into a film by Walt Disney. Later also adapted as a live-action film and as a stage musical.
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Jip[2][3]
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Lapdog
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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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Belonging to Dora Spenlow, David Copperfield's first wife.
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Jip
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Doctor Dolittle
|
Hugh Lofting
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One of Doctor Dolittle's animal companions.
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John Joiner
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
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Beatrix Potter
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The terrier who rescued Tom Kitten from being made into a pudding by rats.
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Jump
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Page (novel)
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Tamora Pierce
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K-9
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Metal dog
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Doctor Who
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One of the 4th Doctor's companions.
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Kashtanka[11]
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Kashtanka
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Anton Chekhov
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Kazak
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English Mastiff
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The Sirens of Titan
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Companion of William Niles Rumfoord. In another Vonnegut novel Breakfast of Champions, there is a Doberman Pinscher, also named Kazak.
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Kipper
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Kipper the Dog
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Mick Inkpen
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A warm-hearted, friendly and curious dog.
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Know-Nothing Bo the Non-Wonder Dog
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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Douglas Adams
|
A dog belonging to advertiser Will Smithers.
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Lad[2][6]
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Rough Collie
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Lad, A Dog
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Albert Payson Terhune
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Laska
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Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
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Levin's hunting dog.
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Lassie[3][6]
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Rough Collie
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Lassie Come Home
|
Eric Knight
|
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Lorelei[7]
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Lorelei's Secret
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Carolyn Parkhurst
|
The dog who was the only witness to his owner's suicide. Her husband attempts to find out why she committed suicide by teaching the dog to communicate by talking. U.S. book title is The Dogs of Babel.
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Mo
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Mo - The Talking Dog
|
Michelle Booth (author)
|
The puppy who is given a specially-grown voicebox by a veterinarian and develops the ability to talk.
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Molly
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John Dies at the End
|
David Wong
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The rust colored dog who eventually returns from an alternate universe as Fred Durst. In the second novel, Molly is shot dead, during an instant of time, in order to save Dave, who was saving Amy, who was ran in front of an entire army as they were mowing down zombies.
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Montmorency[12]
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Fox Terrier
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Three Men in a Boat
|
Jerome K. Jerome
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The narrator's dog who accompanies him and his two friends on a boating holiday over the river Thames.
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Moses
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Dogville
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Lars von Trier
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Chuck's dog, seen only as a chalk outline on the ground until the final scene.
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Mouse
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The Dresden Files
|
Jim Butcher
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Harry's dog.
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Mr. Bones[7][13]
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Timbuktu
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Paul Auster
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Stray dog and narrator of the story. Later renamed Sparky/Sparkatus
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Nana
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Newfoundland
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Peter Pan
|
J. M. Barrie
|
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Old Dan[3] and Little Ann[3]
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Redbone Coonhound
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Wilson Rawls
|
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Olive
|
Jack Russell Terrier
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Olive, the Other Reindeer
|
Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Siebold
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Pansy
|
English Mastiff
|
Burke
|
Andrew Vachss
|
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Patrsche[2]
|
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A Dog of Flanders
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Ouida
|
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Pearl the Wonder Dog
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Pointer
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Spenser
|
Robert Parker
|
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Pepper
|
English Mastiff
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The House on the Borderland
|
William Hope Hodgson
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Petula
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Pug
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Molly Moon
|
Georgia Byng
|
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Poky
|
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The Poky Little Puppy
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Janette Sebring Lowry
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Pippin
|
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Pippin and Mabel
|
K.V. Johansen
|
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Pompey[14]
|
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The History of Pompey the Little
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Francis Coventry
|
Also known as The Life and Adventures of a Lap-dog.
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Ponch
|
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So You Want to Be a Wizard
|
Diane Duane
|
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Prince Terrien
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Katherine Paterson
|
Leslie Burke's (and the Burke parents') dog.
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Pugnax
|
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Against the Day
|
Thomas Pynchon
|
A literate mutt that is the associate of the Chums of Chance.
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Rab[2]
|
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Rab and his Friends
|
John Brown
|
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Ribsy
|
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Ribsy
|
Beverly Cleary
|
Companion of Henry Huggins.
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Robinson Crusoe's dog[15]
|
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
|
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Rowf and Snitter[7]
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Mongrel, Fox Terrier
|
The Plague Dogs
|
Richard Adams
|
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Rover Rob[16]
|
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Rover Rob
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Scamper
|
Golden Spaniel
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The Secret Seven
|
Enid Blyton
|
Belonging to Peter and Janet.
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Searchlight
|
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Stone Fox
|
John Reynolds Gardiner
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The heroic sled-dog that pulled Little Willy's sled.
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Shadow
|
Border Collie
|
The Sorcerer in the North
|
John Flanagan
|
The injured dog Will adopts. Taught many tricks, including barking on command, to aid Will's disguise as a jongleur.
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Shiloh[6]
|
Beagle
|
Shiloh
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
The dog saved from his abusive owner.
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Skylar[17]
|
Jack Russell terrier
|
Skylar and George Washington
|
Matt Burgess
|
Based on Matt's real dog named Skylar.
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Sirius[7]
|
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Sirius
|
Olaf Stapleton
|
Eponymous hero, the result of an experiment to produce a dog with something like human intelligence.
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Snowy
|
Wire Fox Terrier
|
The Adventures of Tintin
|
Hergé
|
Tintin's dog.
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Spark
|
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Little, Big
|
John Crowley
|
Daily Alice's dog
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Spot
|
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Spot the Dog
|
Eric Hill
|
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Timothy / Timmy / Tim
|
Mongrel
|
The Famous Five
|
Enid Blyton
|
All three names are found interchangeably. George Kirrin's dog.
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Thor
|
German Shepherd Dog
|
Thor
|
Wayne Smith
|
Later adapted into a film titled Bad Moon.
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Toto
|
Cairn Terrier
|
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
|
L. Frank Baum
|
Dorothy's pet dog
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Tock
|
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The Phantom Tollbooth
|
Norton Juster
|
The "watchdog" (the name is a pun, because the dog has a large clock on his side).
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Walter
|
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Walter the Farting Dog
|
William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray
|
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What-a-Mess{Muir, Frank "What-a-Mess in Summer". Picture Corgi, 1982}
|
Afghan Hound
|
What-a-Mess
|
Frank Muir
|
Proper name Prince Amir of Kinjan but known as What-a Mess
|
White Fang and Kiche[6]
|
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White Fang
|
Jack London
|
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Wellington
|
Poodle
|
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
|
Mark Haddon
|
Mrs Shears's dog, found dead at the beginning of the story.
|
Wiggins
|
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The Little White Horse
|
Elizabeth Goudge
|
The heroine Maria's dog.
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Zar
|
Borzoi
|
Lara's Gift
|
Annemarie O'Brien
|
The heroine Lara's best friend and companion.
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