# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/61 "2005-06-29T17:26:55Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > President Lyndon Johnson had a pair of **beagles** named Him and Her. He had the unfortunate habit of lifting them by their ears. I thought those were Basset Hounds? If not, I think the Basset from “The Dukes Of Hazzard” is probably the pop-cultural archetype. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/62 "2005-06-29T17:31:21Z")
English Mastiff - “The Beast” from the movie **Sandlot.** (_not_ Bullmastiff) Santa’s Little Helper is a greyhound? But greyhounds are pretty tall…it always looked more like a Vizsla to me, but yes, as I recall, SLH does not have a docked tail. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/63 "2005-06-29T17:48:09Z")
Yes another famous basset hound was **Cleo** from “People’s Choise.” I’m also in agreement with Rin Tin Tin as the famouse example of German Shepherd. There also was Roy Roger’s shepherd, “Bullet” who is immortalized (i.e. stuffed & mounted), on display at the Roy Rogers ranch, I believe. Oh yeah, three cheers for Asta, my favorite movie pooch - a -wire-hair fox terrier. 🙂 ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/64 "2005-06-29T17:53:24Z")
Homer got SLH from a race track. I don’t remember the episode very well, so I suppose it’s possible it was a whippet track, but it’s just more likely a greyhound track. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/65 "2005-06-29T18:07:15Z")
German shorthair pointer – Pearl the Wonder dog. She’s heavily featured in the last six or so ‘Spenser’ novels. Which isn’t visual, except that there’s always a photo of Robert Parker with his real life GSP on the back of the dust cover. Yorkshire terrier: the publisher on the old “Lou Grant” show had one, no idea of its name. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/66 "2005-06-29T20:35:34Z")
> [@The Punkyova](#): > > And the Disney movie was “The Shaggy DA.” Nope. That was the sequel to “The Shaggy Dog.” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/67 "2005-06-29T21:03:34Z")
I’ll submit “Winky” from _Best in Show_ as the best-known example of a Norfolk terrier. > [@AskNott](#): > > 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. No, the earlier poster had it right – Millie was an **English springer spaniel.** Scarlett, past and present owner of three fine specimens of this wonderful breed ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/68 "2005-06-29T21:03:49Z")
Border Collie - [Rico](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_(Border_Collie)). I have a Border Collie. They’re so smart it’s scary sometimes. (but mine doesn’t come close to Rico). ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/69 "2005-06-29T21:56:36Z")
There was an Australian Cattle Dog (don’t know his name) in Mad Max and/or The Road Warrior. The dog in “To Dance with the White Dog” was an Australian Shepherd. ---
**Author:** ![parsnip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parsnip/32/4564_2.png) [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/70 "2005-06-29T22:14:55Z")
Carl the Rottweiler [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689807481/qid=1120084038/sr=2-1/ref=pd\_bbs\_b\_2\_1/002-5874302-4444821](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689807481/qid=1120084038/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-5874302-4444821) much better than Nana (whatever she was, English Sheepdog?) in Peter Pan ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/71 "2005-06-29T23:26:22Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > Yes another famous basset hound was **Cleo** from “People’s Choice.” Cleo was what came to mind for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/72 "2005-06-30T00:32:22Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > 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. Millie was an English Springer Spaniel ! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/73 "2005-06-30T01:24:13Z")
> [@Corii](#): > > 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. 🙂 My mom had one in the 80s. I remember that the main bad guy in **Innerspace** (the movie with Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, and Meg Ryan in which Dennis Quaid gets shrunk really small and injected into Short) had a Samoyed. At one point the Samoyed eats a key piece of machinery and the owner gets really pissed off. Blue Heeler/Australian Cattle Dog: Dog from **The Road Warrior** ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/74 "2005-06-30T01:54:22Z")
> [@The Punkyova](#): > > 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. There is a statue of Balto in NYC’s Central Park. Balto’s body is preserved and on display at Cleveland’s natural history museum. There was an animated movie about Balto a few years ago (it was awful, but at least the dog looked like a husky). PBS’s Nature program did an episode on sled dogs that included a segment on Balto. So I’d say that many people know about Balto, and have some idea of what he looked like. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/75 "2005-06-30T03:21:36Z")
Sandy, Little Orphan Annie’s dog, is \sort of\ an airedale. I’m pretty sure that Sandy is supposed to be a mutt with a strong airedale ancestry, but in most depictions of Sandy, the airedale idea is defintely coming through. I think the following conversation would be possible: A: What kind of dog did you get? B: An airedale. A: What’s that? B: You know, like Sandy, from Little Orphan Annie. A: Ah, gotcha. At any rate, I can’t think of another famous airedale. A google search reveals that Warren Harding had an airedale. I’m not even sure I could pick \Harding\ out of a line up, much less his dog. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/76 "2005-06-30T03:48:38Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Nonsense – it’s the Yale Bulldog that’s representative of its breed. Handsome Dan. Hell yeah. > [@boofoo](#): > > Don’t know if you would call him “famous” but Ein from the anime Cowboy Beebop is a perfect example of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. He was pretty painstakingly drawn, wasn’t he? > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Beagle: Porthos from Voyager. Porthos was from Enterprise. As for other dogs from Star Trek, I recall, Captain Janeway in Voyager had an Irish Setter that was due to have a litter sometime after they left on the mission that got them stuck in the Delta Quadrant. Earlier, Q turned Dr. Crusher into an Irish Setter for a moment while she was nagging him about something or other. Seems that someone involved with Star Trek likes Irish Setters. Anyway, you could also include Wishbone as a spokesdog for JRTs. What kind of dog was Benji? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/77 "2005-06-30T04:00:03Z")
(Sorry about the Voyager/Enterprise mixup, I _knew_ something about that sounded funny.) The British “All Creatures” series – Trickie Woo, I think, was a Pekingese. Really old series: Sgt Preston \ had a husky type dog. King, maybe? What breed were the guide dogs on “Longstreet” and the recently cancelled “Blind Justice”? I want to say Labs, but I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/78 "2005-06-30T10:10:40Z")
When I think of bulldogs, I think of this: [http://www.bigtruckdrivingjobs.com/trucking\_pics/mack/mack\_logo.jpg](http://www.bigtruckdrivingjobs.com/trucking_pics/mack/mack_logo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/79 "2005-07-01T04:12:56Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > What kind of dog was Benji? Benji’s a mutt. [Benji More FAQs](http://www.benji.com/FAQ.htm) > [@](#): > > The original Benji was a mixed breed, as is the new Benji. Huggable, floppy-eared mutts, we call them. Lots of folks have guessed about the components of the mix but nobody knows for sure because both were adopted from animal shelters. We feel certain that the current Benji has some spaniel in her because she lies with her back legs splayed out (like a bear rug) as many spaniels do. We know no more than that. We’re just happy they came along. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284/80 "2005-07-01T07:19:30Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Millie was an English Springer Spaniel ! 🙂 The only issue upon which GWB and I would agree—would be that ESSs are gorgeous dogs. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-example-of-each-dog-breed/310284.md?page=3)