Big Red Dog–Clifford
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)?
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.
Gah! You’re right! Shows how long since I’ve read a Harry Potter book…
It is Hagrid’s dog, Fang, that is a Neopolitan Mastiff. The three headed dog, I suspect looks like a staffy terrier mix.
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
Staffordshire Terrier [size=1] I wants one…except for the rather strong prey drive.
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 (?)
In Good Boy there is a Border Terrier whose name escapes me.
Pug was in Men in Black.
Asta - Wirehaired Fox Terrier
Rufus - the Papillon from the Zyrtek allergy pills ad
This would be going back a bit, but in the Thin Man novel, Asta was a schnauzer.
You’re saying that a wire hair terrier played a St. Bernard? Now that’s acting!
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.
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.
Nixon’s better known dog was his Cocker Spaniel, Checkers.
And the Disney movie was “The Shaggy DA.”
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.
In my mind, the most famous Samoyed I can think of is Spitz from <b>Call of the Wild</b>. Of course I mostly remembered him because I grew up with Samoyeds. 
Well for thirty-somethings the Old English Shhepdog would have to be Digby or (for the Brits) the Dulux dog .
For the same generation - Golden Lab. & Staffordshire Bull Terrier it would have to be these fellas
Then of course kids in the UK had the pets on Blue Peter - Shep the Border Collie and Goldie - no guesses for the breed. (Now tho’, along with regional accents they have finally been allowed to have scruffier types.)
And as for famous Pekinese there were several appearances of one “Tricky Woo” in the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small”.
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.
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.
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.
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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
asx is the UKC
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.
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