# Most famous example of each dog breed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284 "2005-06-28T22:45:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/41 "2005-06-29T12:39:29Z")
Big Red Dog–Clifford > [@scr4](#): > > Preferably famous enough and distinctive enough that you can use it to remind people what a particular breed looks like. While not “famous” individually, the dogs in _Best in Show_ can be useful for this purpose. Norfolk Terrier, Weimaraner, Bloodhound, Standard Poodle, and Shih Tzu(?). What kind of dog was Tiger from the Brady Bunch (and A Boy and His Dog)? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/42 "2005-06-29T12:43:00Z")
I would like to say the most famous pugs were either Sir William of Orange’s pug, or Empress Josephine’s “Fortune” (as in, Napolean and Josephine), but alas, I’m afraid that the teeming masses would find the one in Men in Black more famous. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/43 "2005-06-29T12:48:19Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > You’re thinking of the wrong dog - Fluffy is the one with three heads. Fang is Hagrid’s regular pet dog who lives in his hut with him. Gah! You’re right! Shows how long since I’ve read a Harry Potter book… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/44 "2005-06-29T12:56:25Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Well, with one head, anyway. It is Hagrid’s dog, Fang, that is a Neopolitan Mastiff. The three headed dog, I suspect looks like a staffy terrier mix. > [@](#): > > American Staffordshire Terrier, aka American Pit Bull Terrier I think, and all I have to go on is from near constant reading of Dog Books from Doggie Shopping for the last two years, that these are two different breeds. [American Pit Bull Terrier](http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/americanpitbull.htm) [Staffordshire Terrier](http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/staffordshirebullterrier.htm) [size=1] I wants one…except for the rather strong prey drive. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/45 "2005-06-29T13:11:33Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Nimrod, from the movie version of [Tarka the Otter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079988/), is probably the only time many people have seen an Otterhound. > > I want [one](http://www.perrosargentinos.com.ar/otterhound.htm). Such a lovely [ugly](http://www.gotpetsonline.com/pictures-gallery/dog-pictures-breeders-puppies-rescue/otterhound-pictures-breeders-puppies-rescue/pictures/otterhound-0002.jpg) dog. > > 😃 I think Otterhounds are cute. If I lived on a lake, and could put up with the oily coat they have, I would love to have a dog like these. They are very rare and the US breeder for this breed, the only breeder for them here, also owns something like 17 of them out of the 30 in the states. Other famous dogs: Asta is an airedale terrier (?) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/46 "2005-06-29T13:13:29Z")
In **Good Boy** there is a Border Terrier whose name escapes me. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/47 "2005-06-29T14:05:45Z")
**Pug** was in Men in Black. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/48 "2005-06-29T14:32:48Z")
Asta - Wirehaired Fox Terrier Rufus - the Papillon from the Zyrtek allergy pills ad ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/49 "2005-06-29T14:53:17Z")
This would be going back a bit, but in the _Thin Man_ novel, Asta was a schnauzer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/50 "2005-06-29T15:43:59Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Wire hair terrier – **Skippy** > \ > > St. Bernard – **Neal** from the TV series **Topper** (in a role played by Skippy, BTW). You have to love a dog who drank martinis. You’re saying that a wire hair terrier played a St. Bernard? Now that’s acting! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/51 "2005-06-29T15:47:58Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Cairn- Toto True, although my Cairn-owning friends tell me that Toto was an awful example. I don’t know that modern Cairns look much like him. On the other hand, I don’t know that anyone other than an afficianado can tell various terriers apart anyway - Cairn, Scottie, Westie, Border - they basically look alike, except for coloring. I’m going to go hide now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/52 "2005-06-29T15:51:02Z")
> [@Jeff Lichtman](#): > > The most famous Husky is probably Balto, the lead dog of a team that in 1925 carried diptheria serum from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome. The feat is memorialized in the annual Iditarod race. Very true, but that doesn’t help in visiually describing a husky. “You want to know what a husky looks like? Like Balto, the dog who got the serum from Anchorage to Nome.” Doesn’t really work. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/53 "2005-06-29T15:55:04Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Millie, GHW Bush’s Springer Spaniel. > > Nixon had an Irish Setter, King Timahoe (don’t know if I spelled that right). > > Tramp from “My Three Sons” was an Old English Sheepdog as was the dog in the Disney movie “The Shaggy Dog.” Nixon’s better known dog was his Cocker Spaniel, Checkers. And the Disney movie was “The Shaggy DA.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/54 "2005-06-29T16:01:49Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I think, and all I have to go on is from near constant reading of Dog Books from Doggie Shopping for the last two years, that these are two different breeds. > > [American Pit Bull Terrier](http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/americanpitbull.htm) > [Staffordshire Terrier](http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/staffordshirebullterrier.htm) [size=1] I wants one…except for the rather strong prey drive. There is no accepted breed known as a Pit Bull, with whatever modifiers you want to add. In general use, the term refers to any of the bully breeds who has been mistreated, tortured and tormented into becoming agressive and fighting (in a pit) for the “entertainment” of subhumanoid anthropods. American Staffordshire Bull Terriers (or AmStaffs) are not the same as Staffordshire Bull Terriers, although they are related. I’m a bit fuzzy on the ins and outs of the various bully breeds, but they are generally affectionate and affable dogs. Staffordshire Bull Terriers are nicknamed “The Nanny Dog” because there is NO DOCUMENTED CASE of one ever biting a child, and they are incredibly gentle animals. Despite this, they are now illegal in Ontario, as well as various American cities/counties because it’s easier to ban the dogs than hold their owners accountable. I’ll calm down now, and stop posting to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/55 "2005-06-29T16:09:35Z")
In my mind, the most famous Samoyed I can think of is Spitz from \Call of the Wild\. Of course I mostly remembered him because I grew up with Samoyeds. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/56 "2005-06-29T16:16:54Z")
Well for thirty-somethings the Old English Shhepdog would have to be [Digby](http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/220765.1020.A.jpg) or (for the Brits) the [Dulux dog](http://www.dulux.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/DLXIE/Our_Brands/Images/wsdog2.gif) . For the same generation - Golden Lab. & Staffordshire Bull Terrier it would have to be [these fellas](http://www.disney-guide.com/vimages/incrediblejourney1.jpg) Then of course kids in the UK had the pets on Blue Peter - [Shep](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/pets/shep.shtml) the Border Collie and [Goldie](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/pets/goldie.shtml) - no guesses for the breed. (Now tho’, along with regional accents they have finally been allowed to have [scruffier](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/pets/mabel.shtml) types.) And as for famous Pekinese there were several appearances of one “Tricky Woo” in the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small”. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/57 "2005-06-29T16:58:21Z")
President Lyndon Johnson had a pair of **beagles** named Him and Her. He had the unfortunate habit of lifting them by their ears. President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara had a dog named Millie, who “wrote” a book about life in the White House. I’m not sure, but I think Millie was called a **King Charles Cavalier Spaniel** or something like that. Has anyone mentioned Hank Hill’s **Bloodhound** Lady Bird? (on _King of the Hill_) It’s a cartoon, but she’s drawn pretty accurately. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/58 "2005-06-29T17:04:35Z")
Nikita Kruschev gave a **White Spitz** puppy to JFK’s daughter Caroline. Since WW I, we Yanks have called this breed **American Eskimo.** Nikita’s gift is probably the reason many male Eskies are named Nicky. ---
**Author:** ![Prancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Prancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prancer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/59 "2005-06-29T17:12:09Z")
Santa’s Little Helper from The Simpsons is a greyhound. He looks realistic enough that I’ve had several people mention him when they see my grey. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/60 "2005-06-29T17:23:13Z")
> [@The Punkyova](#): > > There is no accepted breed known as a Pit Bull, with whatever modifiers you want to add. In general use, the term refers to any of the bully breeds who has been mistreated, tortured and tormented into becoming agressive and fighting (in a pit) for the “entertainment” of subhumanoid anthropods. > > American Staffordshire Bull Terriers (or AmStaffs) are not the same as Staffordshire Bull Terriers, although they are related. I’m a bit fuzzy on the ins and outs of the various bully breeds, but they are generally affectionate and affable dogs. Staffordshire Bull Terriers are nicknamed “The Nanny Dog” because there is NO DOCUMENTED CASE of one ever biting a child, and they are incredibly gentle animals. Despite this, they are now illegal in Ontario, as well as various American cities/counties because it’s easier to ban the dogs than hold their owners accountable. > > I’ll calm down now, and stop posting to this thread. [HIJACK]No offense, buth that sounds like a lot of propaganda. Although the American Kennel Club doesn’t recognize the American Pit Bull Terrier, they do recognize the American Staffordshire Terrier. The ADBA is a group that recognizes the APBT, [http://www.adba.cc/p\_home.asp](http://www.adba.cc/p_home.asp) asx is the UKC [http://www.ukcdogs.com/](http://www.ukcdogs.com/) My dog is a registered (pedigreed) stud with the ADBA. I bred him to a bitch who is registered with the AKC as an American Staffordshire Terrier and the ADBA and the UKC as an APBT. So all Am Staffs are pit bulls, but not all pit bulls are Am Staffs. Yes, pit bulls have bitten children. So hav echows, chihuahas, poodles and German sherherds. This is aberrant behavior in any breed. [/HIJACK] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284.md?page=4)