# The Fictional Dog/Owner Game Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509 "2005-02-05T09:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/1 "2005-02-05T09:42:55Z")
The rules are simple: submit the name of a fictional dog, and the poster who can answer correctly with the name of the owner {and any other useful information} submits another fictional dog, and so on… For example: Scrufty Farmer Pickles {from **Bob The Builder** } OK…Jumble. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/2 "2005-02-05T13:09:18Z")
Do we have to answer the one before submitting another? Hopefully not. Asta Pal Barfy ---
**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:** [February 5, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/3 "2005-02-05T13:15:11Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > Asta Nick and Nora Charles Tiger ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/4 "2005-02-05T13:22:57Z")
Normal rule for such a game is that you have to answer the prior one before you can submit one. Otherwise, no one would know who’s responding to what or when or why. It’s up to **Case Sensitive** how to structure this one, but you can see the problem already with five dog names tossed out and only one answer. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/5 "2005-02-05T20:45:16Z")
OK, let’s try to get this back on track…Tiger was the Brady Bunch’s dog. Edgar ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/6 "2005-02-05T21:03:17Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Normal rule for such a game is that you have to answer the prior one before you can submit one. Otherwise, no one would know who’s responding to what or when or why. It’s up to **Case Sensitive** how to structure this one, but you can see the problem already with five dog names tossed out and only one answer. What **Dex** said, really. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/7 "2005-02-05T21:04:22Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > OK, let’s try to get this back on track…Tiger was the Brady Bunch’s dog. > > Edgar Edgar, son of Farley, is the sheepdog from the comic strip “For Better or For Worse.” Okay, who owned a dog named Fly? ---
**Author:** ![violacrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c57346/32.png) [@violacrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/violacrane)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/8 "2005-02-05T22:06:50Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Edgar, son of Farley, is the sheepdog from the comic strip “For Better or For Worse.” > > Okay, who owned a dog named Fly? Farmer Hoggett. Next: Argus. ---
**Author:** ![violacrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c57346/32.png) [@violacrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/violacrane)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/9 "2005-02-05T22:09:54Z")
> [@violacrane](#): > > Farmer Hoggett. Next: Argus. Oops, that’s Farmer Hoggett from Babe, book by Dick King Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/10 "2005-02-05T22:53:58Z")
> [@violacrane](#): > > Next: Argus. Ulysses/Odysseus, yes? Good one! Mine: Nop I know, too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/11 "2005-02-06T05:12:31Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > Ulysses/Odysseus, yes? Good one! > > Mine: Nop Lewis Burkholder (but I had to Google that one–is that allowed?) Next: Puddles ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/12 "2005-02-06T05:56:18Z")
The comic strip _Luann_ Einstein ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/13 "2005-02-06T06:08:30Z")
Doc Brown, from Back to the Future. Delicious ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/14 "2005-02-08T09:12:50Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > The rules are simple: submit the name of a fictional dog, and the poster who can answer correctly with the name of the owner {and any other useful information} submits another fictional dog, and so on… > > For example: > Scrufty > Farmer Pickles {from **Bob The Builder** } > > OK…Jumble. For the record, Jumble was William Brown’s dog, in Richmal Crompton’s **William** series. ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/15 "2005-02-08T16:19:26Z")
Barfy is the dog in the Family Circus “comic”. How about–Montmorency? ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fictional-dog-owner-game-thread/288509/16 "2005-02-08T19:13:45Z")
> [@Reno Nevada](#): > > How about–Montmorency? He belonged to the narrator of _Three Men In A Boat_, by Jerome K. Jerome. I don’t think the narrator ever gave his name. How about Bartleby?