# Looking for the dog equivalent of the ANSI cat: \>^..^\< **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112 "2014-12-24T20:05:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/1 "2014-12-24T20:05:34Z")
\>^…^\< Or whatever you want to call it. or as a alternative a very simple drawing that can be recognized right away as a symbol for a dog. The simpler the better. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/2 "2014-12-24T20:13:26Z")
\>}}}}}D ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/3 "2014-12-24T22:05:42Z")
Had a few minutes to screw around, so… It could use some work. I cheated a little using sup and sub code U[sup]@[/sup][sub]8[/sub][sup]@[/sup]/U A take on what Penfeather did. Thought this looked a little like a wiener dog. (not a sandwich) [sup]d/sup[sup]g[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/4 "2014-12-25T00:49:36Z")
Let’s give that another try. With paws. mUioiUm Without paws. UioiU ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/5 "2014-12-25T00:59:04Z")
Sorry for triple posting, but maybe j’s work better. UjojU mUjojUm ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/6 "2014-12-25T01:29:19Z")
ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ There are tons of multi-line dogs, but this is the only single-line dog I could find. Source: [1 Line Art](http://1lineart.kulaone.com/art/64) By the way, you are looking for an ASCII rendition, not an ANSI rendition. Maybe that will help you find something. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/7 "2014-12-25T05:55:51Z")
The ANSI dog and the EBCDIC cat row by row in the table sat . . . ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/8 "2014-12-25T06:26:47Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > \>}}}}}D I’ve been looking at this and looking at this, and I can’t figure it out. Can someone help me? Is the left side the tail and the right the head? And what are all the curly braces? My brain just can’t resolve this into a dog. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/9 "2014-12-25T13:11:05Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’ve been looking at this and looking at this, and I can’t figure it out. Can someone help me? Is the left side the tail and the right the head? And what are all the curly braces? My brain just can’t resolve this into a dog. I had a lot of trouble too, it looked more like some armored reptile armadillo thing . I think I got it however, it is a top down view of a large shaggy dog. The \> is either the start o the tail that goes out of frame, or a waging tail, the D the head. \>}}}}}D ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/10 "2014-12-25T13:18:53Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > Sorry for triple posting, but maybe j’s work better. > > UjojU > mUjojUm Pretty good (along with the i version) but lacking the intuitive recognition that I believe the ASCII cat has (thanks for that correction **Alley Dweller** - btw that one you posted looks like a bear). At least to me you have to know there is a dog then find it, the reaction to the cat is people find it not knowing if anything is there. This one come close to that type of recondition (at least to me) U@8@/U Will check out some of the multi line ones, now that I know the correct term. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/11 "2014-12-25T14:28:51Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ > > … > > By the way, you are looking for an ASCII rendition, not an ANSI rendition. Maybe that will help you find something. But ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ isn’t an ASCII rendition, since none of those characters exists in ASCII. ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/12 "2014-12-25T19:28:33Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > \>}}}}}D I thought this was the ASCII fish that the ASCII cat ate. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-dog-equivalent-of-the-ansi-cat/708112/13 "2014-12-26T03:21:00Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS.