# Songs we sing our dogs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544 "2003-08-20T22:44:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/21 "2003-08-22T17:42:23Z")
My dad used to sing a song that Dave Barry had in his greatest hits book: Adventure Dog! Adventure Dog! Kinda big, kinda strong Stupid as a log. That was our dog (RIP sweet Snuffles). The essay that Dave Barry had that in also never fails to crack me up. Susan ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/22 "2003-08-22T17:47:38Z")
Does a cat song count? All my wife does is bouce the kitty in her arms, while singing, “You are so pretty,” over and over again to the tune of “Go Tell Aunty Rhody.” I swear I’m going to tape her one of these days, just for the blackmail potential. ---
**Author:** ![meow\_meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@meow\_meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meow_meow)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/23 "2003-08-22T18:15:09Z")
I do not do this much with the dog I have now, but as a kid in the 80’s I would do this a lot with the dog of my childhood. (RIP, Jessie. She was an Irish Setter.) First, I would hold her by the snout (she didn’t mind) and sing into her nose. To me the nose looked a little like a microphone, so I would say, “Microphone Dog”, a few times, just to get the soundcheck, a course. Then, to the tune of the theme song from Mork and Mindy: Pu-ppy, dog. Pup Pup Pup Pu-ppy, dog. Pup Pup Pup Puuu-uh-ah-uh-oh-ah-ah oh, oh oh, ah puppy-dog, dog, dog. hard to sound out that last bit, but maybe you get the idea. (repeat) i miss her. ---
**Author:** ![DaveX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@DaveX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveX)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/24 "2003-08-22T18:46:56Z")
I tend to make up limericks, so they’re not really songs, but… There once was a doggy named Bella She kind of looked like a fella’ She’d lie on the grass And out from her ass Would come the most horrible smella’ ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/25 "2003-08-22T19:32:26Z")
I frequently substitute their names for names in songs - “Peggy And Her Gallant Soldier” becomes “Penny And…,” and “Mallie Lee” becomes “Penny Lee.” We sing “Mr. Mojo Rising” to the Mojo-dog. And we sing Mojo Nixon songs to him, since that’s who he was named after. Hmmm…I can’t think of anything specific that we sing to Binkley. My dad just makes up lyrics - I’ll never forget catching him singing to our Dachshund, to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic:” “I see the little Doxie and she’s sitting on the chair…” He didn’t know anyone was home at the time! ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/26 "2003-08-22T20:00:56Z")
Valen (nicknamed Duff, or Duffman) gets “DUFFMAN…” sung to the theme of Batman on a regular basis. and to the Arrogant Worms song Billy the Theme Park Shark gets recycled as: “Valen, the theme park putz… performing tricks for tourists that have paid five bucks a head… Valen the theme park putz… he looks just like a killer but he’s too well fed…” (That last one gets used for all dogs: Spanky, and Zap (sung as Zapper)) Zap gets the “You are my puppy, my only puppy, you make me happy when skies are greeeeey…” and "If you’re a puppy and you know it shake a paw… " We also sing variations on “Puppies in the niiiiight, exchanging putzes… lovers at first siiiight… feeling my nutses…” Yeah. We’re weird. Wufs from the NoFair household… Elly ---
**Author:** ![Franko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@Franko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Franko)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/27 "2003-08-22T21:15:35Z")
I don’t sing to Brutus,but I talk to him,and he understands most of what I’m saying.If I could find a woman with his qualities I might consider remarring. ``` Franko ``` ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/28 "2003-08-22T21:20:14Z")
Auggie, The Cutest Dog on the Planet ™, regularly gets to hear the following, first sung by Yosemite Sam: Oh, I can’t get along little doggie, Oh, I can’t even get one that’s small, Oh, I can’t get along little doggie, Oh, I can’t get a doggie at all. I also sing “Auggifer, Doggifer” to the tune of “Jennifer, Juniper”. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/29 "2003-08-22T21:30:55Z")
I love these songs! I have many, but the general favorite “Going Out in the Morning” song (sung to the tune of “I Sing The Body Electric”) goes: \*I sing the puppy electric I celebrate the dog yet to come I toast when puppies go potty and nuggets come out of their BUUUUUMS . . . \* They pretty much ignore me and bolt for the back door in the middle of the first line. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/30 "2003-08-23T07:55:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Franko \* > \*\*I don’t sing to Brutus,but I talk to him,and he understands most > of what I’m saying.If I could find a woman with his qualities I > might consider remarring. > > ``` > Franko ** > > ``` My dog is also Brutus 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/31 "2003-08-23T11:36:22Z")
My estranged husband’s father used to sing (not sure of the title to the original tune): She is the dog, our puppy dog She is the dog we have around the house She is the dog who never caught a mouse… I think there was more but I don’t know it all. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544/32 "2003-08-26T13:15:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Franko \* > \*\*I don’t sing to Brutus,but I talk to him,and he understands most > of what I’m saying.If I could find a woman with his qualities I > might consider remarring. > > ``` > Franko ** > > ``` I try to be as understanding as possible. Trust me, though, you wouldn’t want to marry someone like me. Gun fetishes, picky eater, the list goes on. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gouda \* > \*\*My dog is also Brutus 😃 \*\* Only on Tuesdays and Sunday afternoons! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-we-sing-our-dogs/196544.md?page=1)