One Hundred and One Dogs

[Prince Smiles]

I am looking after my friend’s Airedale terrier for the weekend and instead of taking the dog for walkies, I thought it rather more productive to contemplate dogs in literature, fictional or otherwise.

How many dogs are there in literature and can the number held in such high regard in every canine’s psyche, 101 be reached?


You may think I am barking mad and 101 is a pipe dream, but for the sake of man’s best friend, I am willing to give it a go with dogged determination.

Any kind assistance would be very welcome.


1. Okinamaro

The dog in Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book. His fall and rise is detailed in chapter 8, The Cat Who Lived in the Palace.


2. Charles le Chien (Charley)

Mr. Steinbeck’s French gentleman poodle. According to whom was born in Percy, the outskirts of Paris. Trained in France. He knows a little poodle English but responds quickly to commands in French.
Colour: Bleu.


3. Bendicò

Don Fabrizio Corbera’s faithful hound in Lampedusa’s Il Gatorade.
The dog’s incredible reanimation from rug back to dog at the end of the book is too much for words:

"During the flight down from the window, its form recomposed itself for an instant; in the air there seemed to be dancing a quadruped with long whiskers, its right foreleg raised in imprecation. Then all found peace in a little heap of livid dust."


4. Diogenes

Paul Dombey’s dog in Dickens’s Dombey and Son. Florence takes care of the dog after Paul’s death.
The real Diogenes was referred to or referred to himself as “doggish”.
It’s been years since I read Dombey, but isn’t there a character in the novel who says that Diogenes is a stupid name for a dog? Indeed.

[Calidore]

Jack London probably has the 101 covered all by himself.

[Prince Smiles]

5. Montmorency

Jerome K. Jerome’s timeless classic, "Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)"

Asked his thoughts on the boat trip down the Thames Montmorency says,

“It’s all very well for you fellows,” he says; “you like it, but I don’t. There’s nothing for me to do. Scenery is not my line, and I don’t smoke. If I see a rat, you won’t stop; and if I go to sleep, you get fooling about with the boat, and slop me overboard.
If you ask me, I call the whole thing bally foolishness.”
We were three to one, however and the motion was carried.

[kiki1982]

Pilot and Carlo from Jane Eyre, respectively Rochester and StJohn's dogs.

Very cute avatars of their masters too, actually.

Newfoundland and pointer.

Lady Bertram in Mansfield Park has a pug. :lol:

[Prince Smiles]

Pilot and Carlo from Jane Eyre, respectively Rochester and StJohn's dogs.

Very cute avatars of their masters too, actually.

Newfoundland and pointer.

Lady Bertram in Mansfield Park has a pug

kiki1982, Good show! By your leave, we'll put:

6. Pilot

A newfoundland. Mr. Rochester's dog in Jane Eyre


7. Carlo

A pointer. St.John's dog in Jane Eyre


8. A certain Pug

Lady Berthram's dog in Mansfield Park



Kiki1982, you don't happen to know the pug's name by any chance?

9. Cerberus

No list would be complete without the 3 headed hound that guards the gates of hell.

Cerberus gets around, you’ll come across the tri-headed terror in The Aeneid, Symposium, The Iliad, The Inferno and Paradise Lost.

And a big hand for Heracles who managed to drag said beast out of Hades without the aid of weapons.

[Veho]

Laska, Levin's canine friend in Anna Karenina. I had to look up the name for this one as I'd forgotten it - Flossie from Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[Prince Smiles]

Laska, Levin's canine friend in Anna Karenina. I had to look up the name for this one as I'd forgotten it - Flossie from Lady Chatterley's Lover.


Bravo Veho!

10. Laska

Levin's canine friend in Anna Karenina.


11. Flossie

From Lady Chatterley's Lover.

12. Sir Leoline’s toothless mastiff b*tch

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christabel

Aye, with her sixteen short howls, not over loud, how can she been forgotten?

Sir Leoline, the Baron rich,
Hath a toothless mastiff b*tch;
From her kennel beneath the rock
She makes answer to the clock,
10 Four for the quarters,
and twelve for the hour;
Ever and aye, moonshine or shower,
Sixteen short howls, not over loud;
Some say, she sees my lady's shroud.

13. Anna Sergeyevna’s white Pomeranian dog


Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady With The Lap Dog”

Having not read the story for donkey’s years, I read it through again in search of the Pomeranian’s name. What a wonderful short story! Alas it is not divulged. Anna does tell Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov the dog’s name however because he is trying to remember it when he sees the dog outside Anna’s residence in S---- later on it the proceedings.

Gurvo’s first meeting with the dog:

He beckoned coaxingly to the Pomeranian, and when the dog came up to him he shook his finger at it. The Pomeranian growled: Gurov shook his finger at it again.

It’s amazing, this dog is one of the most famous in literature, yet we are not privy to its name. I bet Constance Garnett knows!

14. Dick

Robinson Crusoe’s faithful dog in Daniel Defoe’s “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates”

The dog, perhaps a terrier was rescued off the stricken Esmeralda. In the book I have been unable to find the dog’s name mentioned. Crusoe merely refers to him as, my Dog.

The dog is called Dick in the 1964 series The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. What a series that was, starring Robert Hoffmann, that spellbinding musical score by Robert Mellin and Gian-Pero Reverberi has to be one the greatest scores ever.

Episode 11 of the series was aired by BBC on the 21st December 1996 deals with Dick’s death. Man-oh-live, it must have had a few people misty eyed that day! It is very moving ,and the music! The music! The music! The music!

In the novel, the death of the dog is much less melodramatic:

“My dog was a very pleasant and loving Companion to me, for no less than sixteen Years of my Time, and then dy’d, of meer old Age.”

15. Crusoe

A Newfoundland who stars in “The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies”

While searching for the name of Robinson Crusoe’s dog I came across the book by Robert Michael Ballantyne. The author of many children’s books, most notably, The Carol Island.

I have never read it, but intend to.

Here’s a link to the novel for your reference:

http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Dog-Crusoe-and-His-Master1.html

16. Sharik

Recognize! The great Mikhail Bulgakov!
Sharik the mangy cur is given a human pituitary gland and a pair of human cojones, turning the mutt into an even more mangy human!

You guessed it, “The Heart of a Dog”

[Judith57]

It’s amazing, this dog is one of the most famous in literature, yet we are not privy to its name.http://www.infoocean.info/avatar2.jpg

[PoeticPassions]

This may be more for children, and I remember reading it in elementary school, but it is such a classic and revolves around dogs: Where the Red Fern Grows

And another children's novel: Shiloh (about an abused beagle and a boy)

A few others:
Cujo, from the identically titled book by Stephen King
Toto in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Argos from The Odyssey

A dog is central in the story 'Jerry and Molly and Sam' (cannot remember his name now) by Carver.

Question: Was Lassie a novel?

[kiki1982]

Kiki1982, you don't happen to know the pug's name by any chance?

This is an intersting topic, actually :).

The dog has no name I'm afraid. He's only called 'my pug' and frankly disappears after about halfway, now you mention it. I wonder that there too the dog is an avatar for its owner who seems to be her husbands 'lapdog' in some way, even asking what her opinion is :lol:. She calls him 'my pug' (with a small letter), so she was even too lazy to give it a name :lol:.

[esferica]

Mumu from Turgenev's 'Mumu'
Leo Tolstoj 'The Lion and the Puppy'
Bim from Gavriil Troyepolsky 'White Bim Black Ear'

[Seasider]

Timothy from The Famous Five by Enid Blyton

[TheFifthElement]

Not sure what number we're up to, but:
Mr Bones in Paul Auster's Timbuktu
Fluke in James Herbert's...Fluke!

[Whifflingpin]

The Watch Dog from the Phantom Tolbooth

[Prince Smiles]

This may be more for children, and I remember reading it in elementary school, but it is such a classic and revolves around dogs: Where the Red Fern Grows




18. Buddie

The stray dog Billy meets at the beginning of the book. Billy saves him from some other dogs, then feeds him and washes him. Buddie, in turn, triggers a flashback to when Billy was a young boy living in the Ozark Mountain Valley.


19. Old Dan

A Redbone Coonhound

20. Old Blue

A Bluetick Coonhound


21. Little Ann

Another Redbone Coonhound


Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls

A Redbone Coonhound:

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And another children's novel: Shiloh (about an abused beagle and a boy)



22. Shiloh

The beagle in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's eponymous novel.



A few others:
Cujo, from the identically titled book by Stephen King
Toto in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Argos from The Odyssey

A dog is central in the story 'Jerry and Molly and Sam' (cannot remember his name now) by Carver.

Question: Was Lassie a novel?


23. Cujo

A St. Bernard


24. Toto

Yes! The immortal Toto! Dorothy Gale owns him in L. Frank Baum's novel that needs no introduction!

From Wiki:
Baum did not specifically state Toto's breed, but describes him as "a little black dog (presumably male except in the 1939 MGM movie a female was used) with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose". However, from the illustrations in the first book many have concluded that he is a Cairn Terrier while others believe he is a Yorkshire Terrier as this breed was very popular at the time. In subsequent books he becomes a Boston Terrier for reasons that are never explained, but then resumes the earlier look in later books.

25. Argos

Odysseus' dog that has been patiently waiting for him to return. If I remember correctly, Odysseus is in the guise of a beggar; the dog is in a terrible condition lying outside his house, and Argos is the only one to recognize the returing hero.


A dog is central in the story 'Jerry and Molly and Sam' (cannot remember his name now) by Carver.



26. The dog in 'Jerry and Molly and Sam'

I can't find any info on this short.


Question: Was Lassie a novel?

It certainly was PoeticPassions.

27. Lassie

We all know the breed of this dog. The novel, Lassie Come Home was written in 1940 by Eric Knight.


[The dog has no name I'm afraid. He's only called 'my pug' and frankly disappears after about halfway, now you mention it. I wonder that there too the dog is an avatar for its owner who seems to be her husbands 'lapdog' in some way, even asking what her opinion is . She calls him 'my pug' (with a small letter), so she was even too lazy to give it a name .


kiki1982,
then the dog shall henceforth by known as, 'The 'Disappearing' Pug in Mansfield Park'. How does that grab you? Come to think of it, I reckon we have material for a novel right there!


Mumu from Turgenev's 'Mumu'
Leo Tolstoj 'The Lion and the Puppy'
Bim from Gavriil Troyepolsky 'White Bim Black Ear'

esferica, (who is obviously a big fan of Russian Literature)


28. Mumu ("Муму")

Turgenev's short story


29. The Lion and Puppy


30. Bim

A Gordon Setter in Gavriil Troyepolsky's 'White Bim Black Ear'

I haven't read White Bim Black Ear. It is now on my list.

esferica, is there a dog in 'Oblomov'? For some reason I believe there was, but can't remember.

[Veho]

Of course The Hundred and One Dalmatians is a book by Dodie Smith. I've never read it but you've already got your 101 there.

[Prince Smiles]

Timothy from The Famous Five by Enid Blyton


Seasider,

at #31 with much wagging of tails and panting of breath. With a wet nose and a shinny coat. With lashings of ginger ale and fond momories, none other than:

31. Timothy

A mongrel dog in The Famous Five series.

I shall throw Buster, the Scottish Terrier from Enid Blyton's, The Five Find-Outers series as a bonus to boot:

32. Buster

Scottish Terrier


Not sure what number we're up to, but:
Mr Bones in Paul Auster's Timbuktu
Fluke in James Herbert's...Fluke!



FifthElement, your dogs come in at #33 and #34. Not too shabby!

33. Mr Bones (cool name for a dog)

I haven't read this book. It looks like a good read with many themes. Worth a read FifthElement?


34. Fluke

This book rocks. Remember, 'The Rats' was well? Awesome.


Of course The Hundred and One Dalmatians is a book by Dodie Smith. I've never read it but you've already got your 101 there.


Sorry Veho, nice try.

35. All The Dogs
in The Hundred and One Dalmatians and in the sequel, The Starlight Barking.

36. Gabriel Oak’s Sheep Dog

The sheep dog in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ that sends Gabriel’s flock to certain death over the cliff. The event leads Gabriel to go to Casterbridge in search of work.

Here I think an honorable mention must go out to Wessex, Thomas Hardy’s dog.

THE
FAMOUS DOG
WESSEX
August 1913 – 27 Dec 1926

Faithful. Unflinching.


Wessex had a nip at every visitor to Max Gate apart from T.E Lawrence. Maybe the dog had a fondness for people with the name Thomas?

Therefore with a little licentia poetica:

36(b). Wessex



37. Dr Mortimer's Beast

In The Hound of the Baskervilles.


Question: If you combine a Hardy novel with a Conan Doyle story what title do you get?

Answer: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist!:smile5::smile5::smile5::smile5:

[Veho]

Well, it was worth a try! By the way, no offence, but I don't recommend telling that joke in public. ;)

Anyway, to help you in your quest. I think there was a dog in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. Just looked it up: it's called Heloise.

[Prince Smiles]

The Watch Dog from the Phantom Tollbooth


38. The Watch Dog

Wow, that looks like a fun book chocked full of idioms and puns.


Anyway, to help you in your quest. I think there was a dog in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. Just looked it up: it's called Heloise.


Veho,
muchas gracias. I am beginning to think I have bitten off more than I can chew.

39. Heloise

Cassandra Mortmain's bull terrier
I assume named after the French philsopher nun.

[Veho]

Veho,
muchas gracias. I am beginning to think I have bitten off more than I can chew.

Nah, you can do this! If I think of any more, I'll be sure to post.

[Prince Smiles]

Nah, you can do this! If I think of any more, I'll be sure to post. :thumbsup:


40. Bull's Eye

Bill Sikes’ bull terrier in Oliver Twist.

41. Patrasche

The titular hero in Marie Louise de la Ramee’s tale of hypothermia in Flemish regions.

And quite sad reading is to be encountered in, 'A Dog of Flanders'.

Since thinking about canines in literature and the roles they perform as characters, there seems to be a lot of sadness connected with the dogs. The dog is beaten, maltreated, expires and so forth. I wonder if we as humans having obviously a strong empathy towards helpless creatures and dog's being man's best friend and all, authors use dogs to provoke a strong emotional response?

When John Wayne dies in the Alamo it is sad, but when Lassie breaks her leg in Lassie Come Home, the whole cinema is howling, hysterical, people slapping their own faces, tears running down all cheeks, tearing at their clothes, pulling at and twisting their fingers through their hair, renting at beards, sobbing uncontrollably, shaking, cut to the quick, crushed, strangers consoling one another in the aisles, beating of faces, renting of clothes, swooning, the like that had never before....

42. Greyfriars Bobby

Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson’s story based on that most famous of Scottish woofies, Greyfriars Bobby.

Atkinson who was an American, wrote the book (1912) in the vernacular which is quite an achievement seeing that the lass had never set her bonny toes upon Edinburgh’s cobbled thoroughfares.

If you thought the local dialect of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting got ye sporran in a twist, you might want give this one a miss.

[aliengirl]

What an idea Prince Smiles! :) It seems you'll get to 101 soon. Here are some more -

Skulker - The bull dog of Linton's who bites Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.

Kashtanka - Described as a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a yard-dog, very like a fox in face, in a story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.

A white borzoy puppy - The little dog who bites a goldsmith in "A Chameleon", a short story by Chekhov. The puppy has a sharp muzzle and a yellow patch on her back. The name is not mentioned and all the fun comes from the fact that nobody is sure to whom it belongs.

[Seasider]

Flush. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog. Virginia Woolf wrote a book about Barrett Browning from the dog's viewpoint.

[Prince Smiles]

It seems you'll get to 101 soon.

Aliengirl, we are certainly breathing down the neck of the half century!


Skulker - The bull dog of Linton's who bites Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.

Kashtanka - Described as a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a yard-dog, very like a fox in face, in a story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.

A white borzoy puppy - The little dog who bites a goldsmith in "A Chameleon", a short story by Chekhov. The puppy has a sharp muzzle and a yellow patch on her back. The name is not mentioned and all the fun comes from the fact that nobody is sure to whom it belongs.

Some good choices there Aliengirl. I would never have gotten them in a thousand dog years!
And by your good leave, I shall endeavor to slot your valuable contributions in
at number 43,44,45.

43. Skulker - The bull dog of Linton's who bites Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights

44. Kashtanka - Described as a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a yard-dog, very like a fox in face, in a story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.

45. A white borzoy puppy - The little dog who bites a goldsmith in "A Chameleon", a short story by Chekhov. The puppy has a sharp muzzle and a yellow patch on her back. The name is not mentioned and all the fun comes from the fact that nobody is sure to whom it belongs.

I haven't read the two Chekhov works and I am eager to read them.


Flush. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog. Virginia Woolf wrote a book about Barrett Browning from the dog's viewpoint

Seasider, and with the name Woolf, it would have been rather inexcusable if she hadn't written at least one story about a dog.

The Wiki says:
Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves, the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in Orlando: A Biography, and to which she would return in Between the Acts.

It sounds like a good read. I keep meaning to read more Virginia Woolf. I have only read Orlando and was totally blown away by it. A most extraordinary piece of writing.

46. Flush. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog. Virginia Woolf wrote a book about Barrett Browning from the dog's viewpoint

And Browning's poem below. Notice how the word, 'dog(s)' appears in every stanza except one.

TO FLUSH, MY DOG
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Yet, my pretty sportive friend,
Little is't to such an end
That I praise thy rareness!
Other dogs may be thy peers
Haply in these drooping ears,
And this glossy fairness.

But of thee it shall be said,
This dog watched beside a bed
Day and night unweary
Watched within a curtained room,
Where no sunbeam brake the gloom
Round the sick and dreary.

Roses, gathered for a vase,
In that chamber died apace,
Beam and breeze resigning.
This dog only, waited on,
Knowing that when light is gone
Love remains for shining.

Other dogs in thymy dew
Tracked the hares, and followed through
Sunny moor or meadow.
This dog only, crept and crept
Next a languid cheek that slept,
Sharing in the shadow.

Other dogs of loyal cheer
Bounded at the whistle clear,
Up the woodside hieing.
This dog only, watched in reach
Of a faintly uttered speech,
Or a louder sighing.

And if one or two quick tears
Dropped upon his glossy ears,
Or a sigh came double
Up he sprang in eager haste,
Fawning, fondling, breathing fast,
In a tender trouble.

And this dog was satisfied
If a pale thin hand would glide
Down his dewlaps sloping
Which he pushed his nose within,
After-platforming his chin
On the palm left open.

47. Buck

Jack London's 'Call of the Wild'
Buck regresses back to a wolf after his master dies in the Klondike Gold Rush.

[TheFifthElement]

33. Mr Bones (cool name for a dog)

I haven't read this book. It looks like a good read with many themes. Worth a read FifthElement?


34. Fluke

This book rocks. Remember, 'The Rats' was well? Awesome.
It's a while since I read Timbuktu, but I remember enjoying it. Auster, when on form, is a really good writer. I'd say it's worth a read.
The Rats - oh yes! I scared myself sleepless reading that one as a teenager.

[Prince Smiles]

The Rats - oh yes! I scared myself sleepless reading that one as a teenager.


Ditto. There's that scene in the cinema which still raises my pulse when I think about after all these years.

48. The Little Laughing Dog


Mother Goose!

Hey, diddle, diddle!
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.



'enough said.

[Calidore]

Ditto. There's that scene in the cinema which still raises my pulse when I think about after all these years.

Never saw the movie, but I remember enjoying the Rats trilogy as a teenager. He more recently wrote two novels about a skeptical ghost debunker that were pretty good also.

[Prince Smiles]

Never saw the movie, but I remember enjoying the Rats trilogy as a teenager. He more recently wrote two novels about a skeptical ghost debunker that were pretty good also.


Calidore,
The Rats was a trilogy? I did not know that. I apologize if my memory serves me incorrectly, but isn't there a gruesome scene in the book that takes place in a cinema?

[Seasider]

I just remembered reading a book called Juneau the Sleigh Dog when I was about 9 years old. I thought it was great. I see it was published in 1942 but I couldn't find anything about the author. He was West Lathrop

[aliengirl]

I haven't read the two Chekhov works and I am eager to read them.

Yeah, I'd highly recommend them. Kashtanka is one of my favorite doggy characters. The other one is Robin, only he was real. Robin was Jim Corbett's dog and accompanied him on several hunts. Corbett wrote a story titled "Robin" which is included in his "Man Eaters of Kumaon" and also a poem of the same title. Sadly I could not find the poem now.

[Seasider]

Another Little Dog


The Little Dog's Day
Rupert Brooke

All in the town were still asleep,
When the sun came up with a shout and a leap.
In the lonely streets unseen by man,
A little dog danced. And the day began.

All his life he'd been good, as far as he could,
And the poor little beast had done all that he should.
But this morning he swore, by Odin and Thor
And the Canine Valhalla he'd stand it no more!

So his prayer he got granted to do just what he wanted,
Prevented by none, for the space of one day.
"Jam incipiebo, sedere facebo,"
In dog-Latin he quoth, "Euge! sophos! hurray!"

He fought with the he-dogs, and winked at the she-dogs,
A thing that had never been heard of before.
"For the stigma of gluttony, I care not a button!" he
Cried, and ate all he could swallow and more.

He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps,
And mangled the errand-boys when he could get 'em.
He shammed furious rabies, and bit all the babies,
And followed the cats up the trees, and then ate 'em!"

They thought 'twas the devil was holding a revel,
And sent for the parson to drive him away;
For the town never knew such a hullabaloo
As that little dog raised till the end of that day.

When the blood-red sun had gone burning down,
And the lights were lit in the little town,
Outside, in the gloom of the twilight grey,
The little dog died when he'd had his day.

For a dog lover, this is a real tear-jerker.

The Power of the Dog
by
Rudyard Kipling

There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie--
Perfect passsion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart to a dog to tear.

When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find--it's your own affair--
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.

When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!)
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone--wherever it goes--for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.

We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-term loan is as bad as a long--
So why in--Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?

[Prince Smiles]

I just remembered reading a book called Juneau the Sleigh Dog when I was about 9 years old. I thought it was great. I see it was published in 1942 but I couldn't find anything about the author. He was West Lathrop


49. Juneau the Sleigh Dog

I tried to find some info on West Lathrop as well. His books are available on Amazon, but there is no information on the author. It sounds like a place name. I wonder if it was a nom-de-plume ala O. Henry?

The Half Century!

50. The Little Dog’s Day

A Poem by “ The handsomest young man in England", Rupert Brooke.


Seasider, what a triumph of a poem. I love it! It is reminiscent of Edward Lear nonsense verse.

Being particularly fond of:

All his life he'd been good, as far as he could,
And the poor little beast had done all that he should.
But this morning he swore, by Odin and Thor
And the Canine Valhalla he'd stand it no more!


and


He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps,
And mangled the errand-boys when he could get 'em.
He shammed furious rabies, and bit all the babies,
And followed the cats up the trees, and then ate 'em!"


Yes, every dog shall have its day indeed!
_____________________________________________
Dogs Gone Bad

Rupert Brooke’s creation
The scourge of the nation
Ne’er a wilder dog there will be
The most worthy of dogs to c#ck his hind leg
on the half century!

P. Smiles

[Veho]

Fang and Fluffy (the three-headed dog) from Harry Potter.

[Whifflingpin]

the Last Visible Dog from Russell Hoban's "A Mouse and his Child"

[FranzS]

51. Karenin from "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".

The final scene involving Karenin is the climax of the novel, and for me the most blub-inducing few pages in the whole of literature :\ (I know this, because I just re-read it for the dozenth time in 20 years, and a lump came to my throat just like every other time.)

"His look of awful trust did not last long; he soon laid his head back down on his paws. Tereza knew that no one ever again would look at her like that."

[Calidore]

Calidore,
The Rats was a trilogy? I did not know that. I apologize if my memory serves me incorrectly, but isn't there a gruesome scene in the book that takes place in a cinema?

Probably. It's been too long for me to remember much about them. Herbert in those days was generous with the gore and sex, and that was enough for teenage me.

The other two books are Lair and Domain. The third actually has a post-WWIII apocalyptic setting, with that event allowing the rats to become dominant.

[Prince Smiles]

For a dog lover, this is a real tear-jerker.

The Power of the Dog
by
Rudyard Kipling



Sad reading indeed.


The other one is Robin, only he was real. Robin was Jim Corbett's dog and accompanied him on several hunts. Corbett wrote a story titled "Robin" which is included in his "Man Eaters of Kumaon" and also a poem of the same title. Sadly I could not find the poem now.


52. Robin

Jim Corbett’s dog.

I didn’t know anything about Jim Corbett. He seems to have lived quite an extraordinary life, crowded with incident. I have downloaded, Man-Eaters of Kumaon and look forward to reading it.

I rather like the following example of the times he lived in:

Jim Corbett was at the Tree Tops Hotel, a hut built on the branches of a giant ficus tree, when Princess Elizabeth stayed there on February 5–6, 1952, at the time of the death of her father, King George VI. Corbett wrote in the hotel's visitors' register:
For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess, and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience, she climbed down from the tree the next day a Queen— God bless her.


Fang and Fluffy (the three-headed dog) from Harry Potter.

Veho, will it, and it will be:

53. Fang and Fluffy


the Last Visible Dog from Russell Hoban's "A Mouse and his Child"

54. Last Visible Dog

55. Banga

Banga is Pontius Pilates’ dog in The Master and Margarita.
He seems to be the only ‘person’ who cares about Pilates’ headaches.

My translation of the book is by Mirra Ginsburg and the Jerusalem scenes just seem to burn off the pages.(obviously, ‘manuscripts don’t burn’ though)

I have read other translations and they just don’t seem to get the Jerusalem scenes quite like Mirra Ginsburg does.

55(b). Behemoth

Yes, yes, yes, I am quite aware that he is a cat, but I feel that he would be mortally offended if we didn’t mention him. (101 Dogs in Literature - to say nothing of The Cat)

If there is anyone who disagrees with Behemoth‘s inclusion, I suggest taking the matter up with Azazello, or even, Woland himself. I think you can find them both at No. 302-b Sadovaya Street, Apartment Number 50.

I mean, how could you not want to read a book that starts with a chapter entitled, “Never Speak To Strangers”?

Tell me, baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me, baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame
Ooo, who, who,
Ooo, who, who:banana:

[Snowqueen]

Few borzois from War and Peace. Milka, Yezra, Karay and Rugay and they all are hounds.

Doubletree Mutt and Smasher from The Red Pony they both are Tiflins' ranch dogs.

There was a dog in Grapes of Wrath but I forgot its name. Sorry!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Rudyard Kipling’s “Akela” “Mother Wolf” and “Father Wolf” from the Jungle Book assuming wolves count

Oliver Goldsmith’s “Mad Dog” from Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

The elegy:
http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-goldsmith/2090/


Another Jack London dog; “White Fang”

“Bluebell”, “Jesse” and “Pincher” from Orwell’s Animal House


The six terriers from Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering owned by character farmer Dandie Dinmont; a character by which a breed was named...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandie_Dinmont_Terrier

From Guy Mannering:

“A bonny terrier that, sir, and a fell chield at the vermin, I warrant him; that is, if he's been weel entered, for it a' lies in that.'

'Really, sir,' said Brown, 'his education has been somewhat neglected, and his chief property is being a pleasant companion.'

'Ay, sir? that's a pity, begging your pardon, it's a great pity that; beast or body, education should aye be minded. I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard. I had them a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi' stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi' a hairy skin on't.'

'I have no doubt, sir, they are thoroughbred; but, to have so many dogs, you seem to have a very limited variety of names for them?'

'O, that's a fancy of my ain to mark the breed, sir. The Deuke himsell has sent as far as Charlie's Hope to get ane o' Dandy Dinmont's Pepper and Mustard terriers. "

[Prince Smiles]

Few borzois from War and Peace. Milka, Yezra, Karay and Rugay and they all are hounds.

Doubletree Mutt and Smasher from The Red Pony they both are Tiflins' ranch dogs.

There was a dog in Grapes of Wrath but I forgot its name. Sorry!

56. The borzois hounds in War and Peace. Milka,Yezra,Karay and Rugay

I wasn't sure whether to assign each dog its own number, or to group then into one pack. The pack approach won the day. Snowqueen, they are such regal looking dogs, aren't they? The image of the dogs in a pack is much more powerful. Apparently, 'borzois' means 'swift' in Russian.

57. Doubletree Mutt

A ranch dog owned by the Tiflins.

58. Smasher

Another ranch dogs owned by the Tiflins.
Steinbecks' "The Red Pony"

59. Flash

Tom Joad's dog in, The Grapes of Wrath.
The poor dog is runover at a gas station, a harbinger of the trials and tribulations that await the family.


Rudyard Kipling’s “Akela” “Mother Wolf” and “Father Wolf” from the Jungle Book assuming wolves count



Mr. Gurgle, why of course they count. We will slot Mr Kipling's exceedingly good wolves in at:

60. Akela

61. Mother Wolf

62. Father Wolf

and all that remains is to wish them, in bocca al lupo!


Oliver Goldsmith’s “Mad Dog” from Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

The elegy:
http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-goldsmith/2090/


Mr. Gurgle, that is an interesting poem. Why did the dog die in the end? Was it from remorse at biting its owner? Is the message, don't bite the hand that feeds? :confused:

63. Oliver Goldsmith's "Mad Dog"


Another Jack London dog; “White Fang”

“Bluebell”, “Jesse” and “Pincher” from Orwell’s Animal Farm



64. White Fang

65. Bluebell

66. Jesse

67. Pincher

Now, at this point it is important not to forget that Jessie and Bluebell did have nine puppies and Napoleon took the dogs away from them soon after they were born in order to 'look after their education'.
These are the very dogs that appear later in the book looking very fierce and menacing when it is time to chase Snowball off the farm. (Leon Trotsky being hounded by The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) all the way down to Mexico City)

68. The Nine Dogs of Napoleon


The six terriers from Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering owned by character farmer Dandie Dinmont; a character by which a breed was named...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandie_Dinmont_Terrier

From Guy Mannering:

“A bonny terrier that, sir, and a fell chield at the vermin, I warrant him; that is, if he's been weel entered, for it a' lies in that.'

'Really, sir,' said Brown, 'his education has been somewhat neglected, and his chief property is being a pleasant companion.'

'Ay, sir? that's a pity, begging your pardon, it's a great pity that; beast or body, education should aye be minded. I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard. I had them a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi' stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi' a hairy skin on't.'

'I have no doubt, sir, they are thoroughbred; but, to have so many dogs, you seem to have a very limited variety of names for them?'

'O, that's a fancy of my ain to mark the breed, sir. The Deuke himsell has sent as far as Charlie's Hope to get ane o' Dandy Dinmont's Pepper and Mustard terriers. "


69. The six terriers from Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering

I have never read anything by Sir Walter Scott, but after reading the wonderful dialogue above; I do intend to change that. I have "Ivanhoe" on my bookshelf. Ivanhoe, you are next!

70. Kojak (A.K.A., Big Steve)

What we have here is an Irish Setter in “The Stand”, by Stephen King and not the Telly Savalas, lollipop chomping, ’75 copper colored cool-as-cool Buick Century driving, three-quarter length leather trench coat wearing,Lieutenant Theo Kojak character whom we all know and love.

[Prince Smiles]

I knew there just had to be a dog or two more hiding somewhere in the dark recesses of my childhood…

71. Queen Dripslobber

The spirit dog of the East in the Richard Adams classic; that most famous of Hampshire downs, “Watership Down”.

72. John Joiner

He be the carpenter dog who cuts the floorboards in an attempt emancipate our hero Tom Kitten who; as you may remember, was put in a pudding by king rat, Samuel Whiskers and that termagant, Anna Maria.

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/BigRedPaul/pic34.gif
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/BigRedPaul/pic69.gif
John Joiner En Route and Hard At It

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/BigRedPaul/220px-The_Roly-Poly_Pudding_Tom_Kitten.jpg
A pic that should bring back memories


73. Rover

The dog in J.R.R Tolkien’s “Roverandom”. Written in 1937 after The Hobbit, but not published until 1998 for some reason. This book could have been part of my childhood.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Mr. Gurgle, that is an interesting poem. Why did the dog die in the end? Was it from remorse at biting its owner? Is the message, don't bite the hand that feeds? :confused:

63. Oliver Goldsmith's "Mad Dog"

Prince, you must approach this one with a bit of humor.

http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-goldsmith/2090/

The "so good a man" as it turns out, was apparently not not so good under the skin.
In fact he man was so bad that the "mad" (rabid) dog ended up dying from the bite.

Looks like you are getting close to 101.
I'll pass along any others I happen to think of.

Oh, and please drop the "Mr.", Gilliatt is fine.

.

[Calidore]

One of my favorite dogs, because he's also a great character: Huan, the giant Blessed Lands-born hound from the "Of Beren and Luthien" story in The Silmarillion (who once fights Sauron in canine form and sends him scurrying). Also, since some entries have moved away from literature (way away, in the case of James Herbert), how about Snoopy?

Also, can I suggest posting a list so far?

[Prince Smiles]

Prince, you must approach this one with a bit of humor.

http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-goldsmith/2090/

The "so good a man" as it turns out, was apparently not not so good under the skin.
In fact he man was so bad that the "mad" (rabid) dog ended up dying from the bite.

Looks like you are getting close to 101.
I'll pass along any others I happen to think of.

Oh, and please drop the "Mr.", Gilliatt is fine.

.

Gilliatt,
you are right. I feel that I have taken the poem too seriously. Actually, the thought of the dog dying from an infection passed on by a vile human had crossed my mind, but I dismissed it as lack of faith in humanity.

On reflection, I feel I have been taking this whole thread too seriously and have made a resolution to seek out the remaining dogs in the 101 in a more Cavalier King Charles Spaniel fashion. :rofl:


One of my favorite dogs, because he's also a great character: Huan, the giant Blessed Lands-born hound from the "Of Beren and Luthien" story in The Silmarillion (who once fights Sauron in canine form and sends him scurrying).

Also, since some entries have moved away from literature (way away, in the case of James Herbert), how about Snoopy?

Also, can I suggest posting a list so far?

74. Huan

Another Tolkien dog, is it not?


Also, since some entries have moved away from literature (way away, in the case of James Herbert):rofl::rofl::rofl:

75. Snoppy

I could be dogmatic and disqualify him, but in respect to Calidore and his fellow countryman, Charles M. Schulz, Snoopy it is.

And just to prove that this thread hasn't entirely gone to the dogs:
75(b). Woodstock


Also, can I suggest posting a list so far?
I'll see if I can cobble together a list.

Twenty-Six dogs away! S.O.S! Any help is very much appreciated.

The dogs so fur: (sorry, so far)

1. Okinamaro
Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book

2. Charles le Chien (Charley)
Mr. Steinbeck’s French gentleman poodle in Travels with Charley

3. Bendicò
Don Fabrizio Corbera’s faithful hound in Lampedusa’s Il Gatorade.

4. Diogenes
Paul Dombey’s dog in Dickens’s Dombey and Son.

5. Montmorency
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)

6. Pilot
A Newfoundland. Mr. Rochester's dog in Jane Eyre

7. Carlo
A pointer. St.John's dog in Jane Eyre

8. A certain Pug
Lady Berthram's dog in Mansfield Park

9. Cerberus
The Aeneid, Symposium, The Iliad, The Inferno and Paradise Lost

10. Laska
Levin's canine friend in Anna Karenina

11. Flossie
Lady Chatterley's Lover

12. Sir Leoline’s toothless mastiff b*tch
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

13. Anna Sergeyevna’s white Pomeranian dog
Anton Chekhov’s, The Lady With The Lap Dog

14. Dick
Daniel Defoe, “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates”


15. Crusoe
A Newfoundland who stars in, The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies

16. Sharik
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Heart of a Dog

18. Buddie
Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls

19. Old Dan
Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls

20. Old Blue
Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls

21. Little Ann
Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls

22. Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh

24. Toto

25. Argos
Odysseus' dog

26. The dog in 'Jerry and Molly and Sam'
Raymond Carver

27. Lassie
Eric Knight, Lassie Come Home

28. Mumu
Turgenev, Mumu

29. The Lion and Puppy
Leo Tolstoy, The Lion and Puppy

30. Bim
Gavriil Troyepolsky, White Bim Black Ear

31. Timothy
Enid Blyton, The Famous Five series.

32. Buster
Enid Blyton, The Five Find-Outers

33. Mr Bones
Paul Auster, Timbuktu

34. Fluke
James Herbert, Fluke

35. All The Dogs
in The Hundred and One Dalmatians and in the sequel, The Starlight Barking


36. Gabriel Oak’s Sheep Dog
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

36(b). Wessex
Thomas Hardy’s dog

37. Dr Mortimer's Beast
In The Hound of the Baskervilles

38. The Watch Dog
Norton Juster, Phantom Tollbooth

39. Heloise
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

40. Bull's Eye
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

41. Patrasche
Marie Louise de la Ramee, A Dog of Flanders

42. Greyfriars Bobby
Eleanor Stockhouse, Greyfriars Bobby

43. Skulker
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

44. Kashtanka
Anton Chekhov, Kashtanka

45. A white borzoy puppy
Anton Chekhov, A Chameleon

46. Flush
Virginia Woolf, Flush

47. Buck
Jack London, Call of the Wild

48. The Little Laughing Dog
Mother Goose

49. Juneau the Sleigh Dog
West Lathrop, Juneau the Sliegh Dog

50. The Little Dog’s Day
Rupert Brooke, The Little Dog’s Day

51. Karenin
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

52. Robin
Jim Corbett, Robin

53. Fang and Fluffy
Harry Potter

54. Last Visible Dog
Russell Hoban, A Mouse and his Child

55. Banga
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Magarita

55(b) Behemoth
A Large Black Cat!

56. Milka, Yezra, Karay and Rugay (The Borzois Hounds)
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

57. Doubletree Mutt
Steinbeck, The Red Pony

58. Smasher
Steinbeck, The Red Pony

59. Tom Joad’s dog, Flash
Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

60. Akela
61. Mother Wolf
62. Father Wolf
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

63. Mad Dog
Oliver Goldsmith, Mad Dog

64. White Fang
Jack London, White Fang

65. Bluebell
George Orwell, Animal Farm

66. Jesse
Orwell, Animal Farm

67. Pincher
Orwell, Animal Farm

68. The Nine Dogs of Napoleon
Orwell, Animal Farm

69. The Six Terriers
Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

70. Kojak - Big Steve
Stephen King, The Stand

71. Queen Dripslobber
Richard Adams, Watership Down

72. John Joiner
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding

73. Rover
J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom

74. Huan
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

75. Snoppy
Charles M. Schulz, Snoppy

76. The Dog Lovers’ Dog

The Dog Lovers, Spike Milligan

So they bought you
And kept you in a
Very good home
Central heating
TV
A deep freeze
A very good home -
No one to take you
For that lovely long run -
But otherwise
‘A very good home’
They fed you Pal and Chum
But not that lovely long run,
Until, mad with energy and boredom
You escaped – and ran and ran and ran
Under a car.
Today they will cry for you -
Tomorrow they will buy another dog.


The Great Spike Milligan. The poem is indicative of his animal rights campaigning.

Did anyone else read any volumes of his hilarious autobiographical WW2 books?
Good old Spike, they don’t make like that anymore. :gnorsi:

[Calidore]

Just thought of another: Pansy, the huge mastiff from Andrew Vachss' Burke series.

Also, "Snoppy" should be "Snoopy".

[Prince Smiles]

Just thought of another: Pansy, the huge mastiff from Andrew Vachss' Burke series.

Also, "Snoppy" should be "Snoopy".

What, surely it is Snoppy? The same as Scobby Doo. :smile5:

All the sevens, seventy-seven:

77. Pansy

Andrew Vachss, Burke

78. Sharik (mk1)-(bark1)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Memoirs from the House of The Dead”

According to a very unreliable source, and I will not be confirming this, Sharik was a dog who appeared in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Memoirs from the House of The Dead”. I can remember the characters in that book eating insects at one point, so I can nay see Sharik stewing in his own juices for long, aye!

Anyways, our Sharik from “The Heart of a Dog” it seems was a tribute to Fyodor’s Sharik, or is Sharik a popular name for Russian dogs?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Rats... I was about to mention Doyles' "Hound", but it has already been taken.
I'll continue to pass along others that come to mind.

[Jair]

79. Snowy.

Tintin's lovable, alabastrine companion.

[Calidore]

79. Snowy.

Tintin's lovable, alabastrine companion.

Can't believe I forgot to mention him, and I've been a Tintin fan since I was a kid.

[Prince Smiles]

Chuck the boxer dog welcomes home his soldier owner:

http://youtu.be/SAbCyA2rbxM

[Snowqueen]

Frisky from A Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant, and that dog succeeds in killing Nicolas Ravolati.


56. The borzois hounds in War and Peace. Milka,Yezra,Karay and Rugay
Snowqueen, they are such regal looking dogs, aren't they? The image of the dogs in a pack is much more powerful. Apparently, 'borzois' means 'swift' in Russian.

Oh, yes and quite ferocious too. I enjoyed the scene from the novel where these borzois surrounded a wolf and then attacked it.




59. Tom Joad's Dog (name unknown)

The Grapes of Wrath.
The poor dog is runover at a gas station, a harbinger of the trials and tribulations that await the family.

I dug out the name of Tom Joad’s dog and its called Flash.

[Prince Smiles]

Frisky from A Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant, and that dog succeeds in killing Nicolas Ravolati.



Oh, yes and quite ferocious too. I enjoyed the scene from the novel where these borzois surrounded a wolf and then attacked it.



I dug out the name of Tom Joad’s dog and its called Flash.

Snowqueen, you absolute darling!

I had forgotten all about that Maupassant story! The brilliant Guy De Maupassant. What a great story it is too! Set in Sicily if I remember correctly. I definitely want to re-read it. - Just re-read the story, actually it's set in Sardinia. I wasn't too far off the mark.

No. quatre-vingts: Semillante

The widow Saverini's dead son's dog in Guy De Maupassant's, The Vendetta

I shall christen Tom Joad’s dog for you on our list.

81. Fangs

Fangs willingly presents himself in the first chapter of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.
He belongs to the swineherds-man , Gurth.

Fangs the Saxon hound has had his fore-claws cut off by the Norman forest ranger to stop him being used as a hunting dog. The swine!

82. Skip

A foxy fox terrier in Willie Morris, My Dog Skip

Last night I dreamt that I went to Manderley again…

83. Jasper

A cocker spaniel belonging to the late Mrs. Rebecca De Winter in Daphne Du Maurier’s, “Rebecca”.

[Seasider]

Not literature I know but I hope you can find a place for Lun, Sigmund Freud's beloved Chow. So beloved that he brought him to England from Austria when escaping from the Nazis in 1933. Lun was quarantined for 6 months and Freud visited him regularly.

[Snowqueen]

Snowqueen, you absolute darling!


Wow! I really didn't see it coming, ha ha.... I'm glad I reminded you of that story by Maupassant.

[Prince Smiles]

Not literature I know but I hope you can find a place for Lun, Sigmund Freud's beloved Chow. So beloved that he brought him to England from Austria when escaping from the Nazis in 1933. Lun was quarantined for 6 months and Freud visited him regularly.

Seasider, in the words of Theodor Herzl, 'will it, it will be.'

84. Lun

85: Hervey

Rudyard Kipling's short, The Dog Hervey

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Another one came to mind.
Sometime back, we had a LitNet reading of Edgar Allan Poe's - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
I vaguely recalled a dog playing a part in the story....

“He precipitated himself at full length upon my body; but what was my astonishment, when, with a long and low whine, he commenced licking my face and hands with the greatest eagerness, and with the most extravagant demonstration of affection and joy! I was bewildered, utterly lost in amazement- but I could not forget the peculiar whine of my Newfoundland dog Tiger, and the odd manner of his caresses I well knew."

.

[aliengirl]

79. Snowy.

Tintin's lovable, alabastrine companion.

:hurray: :hurray: Any list of dogs in literature would be incomplete without Tintin's Snowy.

I see you're very near to hundred Prince. So here are some more-

Aileen Mavourneen - The female dog in Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale, who describes herself as- "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself."

Anax - A border collie in The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch. Anax is an extremely sentient dog who desperately misses his owner Bellamy who gave him up to prove his Christian convictions.

[Prince Smiles]

Another one came to mind.
Sometime back, we had a LitNet reading of Edgar Allan Poe's - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
I vaguely recalled a dog playing a part in the story....

“He precipitated himself at full length upon my body; but what was my astonishment, when, with a long and low whine, he commenced licking my face and hands with the greatest eagerness, and with the most extravagant demonstration of affection and joy! I was bewildered, utterly lost in amazement- but I could not forget the peculiar whine of my Newfoundland dog Tiger, and the odd manner of his caresses I well knew."

.

Gilliatt,
I heard they have good wine on Nantucket. Can you verify?

86. Tiger

Arthur Gordon Pym's pup from that man in Baltimore, Edgar Allan. Proving for once and all that it ain't just ravens, orioles (Cal Ripken Jr. on third) and darn good clam chowder in good old Bal'more.

[Prince Smiles]

:hurray: :hurray: Any list of dogs in literature would be incomplete without Tintin's Snowy.

I see you're very near to hundred Prince. So here are some more-

Aileen Mavourneen - The female dog in Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale, who describes herself as- "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself."

Anax - A border collie in The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch. Anax is an extremely sentient dog who desperately misses his owner Bellamy who gave him up to prove his Christian convictions.

Aliengirl, you extraterrestrial angel! You have managed to rope in a good couple of pedigree strays there.

87. Aileen Mavourneen

Mark Twain's mixed breed in, A Dog's Tale

88. Anax

Iris Murdoch, The Green Night


I see you're very near to hundred Prince

Yes, I hoped to finish by Easter because I wanted to do a 101 bunnies list.
Only kidding! Only kidding!

[Prince Smiles]

89. Roselle

The real-life seeing eye dog who is owned by Michael Hingson in “Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero

[aliengirl]

Aliengirl, you extraterrestrial angel! You have managed to rope in a good couple of pedigree strays there.



Thanks Prince. You are very kind. :)

I think nobody else mentioned the huge black dog Cerberus in Agatha Christie's The Capture of Cerberus. It is one of my favorite Poirot stories. And now we have reached ninety! Only ten more to go.

[Whifflingpin]

Fritzi the bull-terrier in Somerset Maugham's Ashenden story "The Traitor"

[Whifflingpin]

Toby - Punch's dog, in general - also, specifically, the Punch & Judy Man's dog in Masefield's box of Delights.

Toby - In Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four,' used as a tracker by Sherlock Holmes - "Toby proved to be an ugly, long-haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown and white in colour, with a very clumsy, waddling gait."

[Whifflingpin]

King Pellinore's brachet in 'The Sword in the Stone' - T H White
"The Wart went over to the tree and found a large white dog scratching herself for fleas. As soon as she saw the Wart she began wagging her whole body, grinning vacuously, and panting in her efforts to lick his face."

[Prince Smiles]

Thanks Prince. You are very kind. :)

I think nobody else mentioned the huge black dog Cerberus in Agatha Christie's The Capture of Cerberus. It is one of my favorite Poirot stories. And now we have reached ninety! Only ten more to go.

90: Cerberus

Agatha's "The Capture of Cerberus"



And now we have reached ninety! Only ten more to go

Remember the conversation in Blade Runner between Deckard and the police chief Bryant just after Deckard has ‘retired’ Zhora:

Bryant: You could learn from this guy, Gaff. He's a god damn one man slaughter house. That's what he is. Four more to go. Come on, Gaff, let's go.
Deckard: Three. There's three to go.
Bryant: There's four. That-- That skin job that you V-K'ed at the Tyrell Corporation, Rachael. Disappeared. Vanished. Didn't even know she was a replicant. Something to do with a brain implant says Tyrell. Come on Gaff. Drink some for me, pal.

Our discourse could run:

Aliengirl: That’s dog number ninety. Ten. There’s ten to go.

Smiles: There’s eleven. That 1956 children’s book by Dodie Smith was entitled 101 Dalmatians, there’s eleven to go.

Aliengirl: Looks like you need a new brain implant, Smiles.

Of course, I could pull a similar trick Colonel Cathcart pulled on Yossarian in Catch 22 and keep increasing the number. Heavens forbid!

[Prince Smiles]

King Pellinore's
brachet in 'The Sword in the Stone' - T H White
"The Wart went over to the tree and found a large white dog scratching herself for fleas. As soon as she saw the Wart she began wagging her whole body, grinning vacuously, and panting in her efforts to lick his face."

Brachet. A nice word that methinks.

Whifflingpin,

91: King Pellinore's brachet

Ten to go. There's ten to go, and this 'inanity' is finally over! :rofl:

[Snowqueen]

A couple of dogs.

Nana from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.

Cyrus Trask's dog from East of Eden, but it's name is not mentioned. Sorry!

[Whifflingpin]

Garm - in Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham

[Prince Smiles]

A couple of dogs.

Nana from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.

Cyrus Trask's dog from East of Eden, but it's name is not mentioned. Sorry!

Oh! Diva of all frozen precipitation, Snowqueen!

92. Nana

Not the lady of ill repute in the eponymous Zola novel, but the dog we all know and love in Peter Pan.

93. Cyrus Trask's Dog

In that land of Nod, East of Eden. John Steinbeck


Garm - in Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham

94. Garm

Another Tolkien creation.

95. Black Shuck

The dog straight out of ancient folklore.
Latest reappearance: The Kettle Chronicles: The Black Dog by I.S. Morgan.
Yes, it's Sunday morning, 4th August 1577, do you know where your dog is?

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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'm scratching at fleas now, but how about these two:

The first comes to us from St. Francis "Little Flowers" and the conversion of "Friar Wolf".

"Hear ye, my brethren. Friar wolf, who is here before you, hath promised and sworn fealty to me, that he will make peace with you and never more offend you in anything; do ye now promise him to give him every day that whereof he hath need; and I become surety unto you for him that he will faithfully observe this covenant of peace." Then all the people with one voice promised to provide him food continually, and St. Francis spake unto the wolf before them all, saying: "And thou, friar wolf, dost thou promise to observe the covenant of peace which thou hast made with this folk, that thou wilt offend neither men nor beast nor any creature?" And the wolf kneeled him down and bowed his head, and, with gentle movements of his body and tail and ears, showed as far as he was able his determination to keep that covenant wholly. Said St. Francis: "Friar wolf, as thou didst me fealty touching this promise, without the gate, so now I desire that thou do me fealty, before all the people, touching thy promise, and that thou wilt not deceiveme concerning my promise and surety which I have given for thee"

the second by James Whitcomb Riley from the "Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury" - "When Old Jack Died".


"...When Old Jack died, it seemed a human friend
Had suddenly gone from us; that some face
That we had loved to fondle and embrace
From babyhood, no more would condescend
To smile on us forever. We might bend
With tearful eyes above him, interlace
Our chubby fingers o'er him, romp and race,
Plead with him, call and coax--aye, we might send
The old halloo up for him, whistle, hist,
(If sobs had let us) or, as wildly vain,
Snapped thumbs, called "Speak," and he had not replied;
We might have gone down on our knees and kissed
The tousled ears, and yet they must remain
Deaf, motionless, we knew--when Old Jack died..."


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[Prince Smiles]

Toby - Punch's dog, in general - also, specifically, the Punch & Judy Man's dog in Masefield's box of Delights.

Toby - In Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four,' used as a tracker by Sherlock Holmes - "Toby proved to be an ugly, long-haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown and white in colour, with a very clumsy, waddling gait."


Fritzi the bull-terrier in Somerset Maugham's Ashenden story "The Traitor"


There seemed to have been several of Whifflingpin's dogs on the loose.
Let's round them up.

96: Toby

A dog in John Masefield's "The Box of Delights"

97: Toby

Sherlock Holme's tracker dog in "The Sign of the Four"

98: Fritzi

A bull-terrier in Somerset Maugham's Ashenden story "The Traitor"

[Prince Smiles]

I'm scratching at fleas now, but how about these two:

The first comes to us from St. Francis "Little Flowers" and the conversion of "Friar Wolf".

"Hear ye, my brethren. Friar wolf, who is here before you, hath promised and sworn fealty to me, that he will make peace with you and never more offend you in anything; do ye now promise him to give him every day that whereof he hath need; and I become surety unto you for him that he will faithfully observe this covenant of peace." Then all the people with one voice promised to provide him food continually, and St. Francis spake unto the wolf before them all, saying: "And thou, friar wolf, dost thou promise to observe the covenant of peace which thou hast made with this folk, that thou wilt offend neither men nor beast nor any creature?" And the wolf kneeled him down and bowed his head, and, with gentle movements of his body and tail and ears, showed as far as he was able his determination to keep that covenant wholly. Said St. Francis: "Friar wolf, as thou didst me fealty touching this promise, without the gate, so now I desire that thou do me fealty, before all the people, touching thy promise, and that thou wilt not deceiveme concerning my promise and surety which I have given for thee"

the second by James Whitcomb Riley from the "Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury" - "When Old Jack Died".


"...When Old Jack died, it seemed a human friend
Had suddenly gone from us; that some face
That we had loved to fondle and embrace
From babyhood, no more would condescend
To smile on us forever. We might bend
With tearful eyes above him, interlace
Our chubby fingers o'er him, romp and race,
Plead with him, call and coax--aye, we might send
The old halloo up for him, whistle, hist,
(If sobs had let us) or, as wildly vain,
Snapped thumbs, called "Speak," and he had not replied;
We might have gone down on our knees and kissed
The tousled ears, and yet they must remain
Deaf, motionless, we knew--when Old Jack died..."


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Gilliatt,
I saw on the news that a terrible tornado was kicking up dust over there in Texas. I do hope no one was hurt.

Well, where you dug the bones up of these two old barkers, I'll never know:

99: Friar Wolf

At ninety-nine Friar Wolf, the dog Saint Francis of Assisi is conversing with in “The Little Flowers of St. Francis”. Author unknown.

100: Old Jack

The old halloo up for him! A whistle ! A hist or two !
Old Jack, the century dog! Who’d ‘ave thought it ?

We are one dog shy from the 101! We are one dog away, me hearties!


What a gorgeous book Sir Gilliatt. Peppered with bookmarks! Classy.

[Prince Smiles]

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101: Cadpig

A female Dalmatian pup in Dodie Smith’s “The Hundred and One Dalmatians”
At first stillborn, but resuscitated by dear, dear, dear, Mr. Dearly.

This is Cadpig’s finest hour. Proof to the adage, every day shall have its day.

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I thought it only fitting at select a doggy from the Hundred and One Dalmatians to be 101.

Well, there we have it, The 101. May their names live in infamy, along with other such numerical legends as:

The 300 Spartans, The Seven Samurai, The Six Hundred Chargers of The Light Brigade,
The 99 Red Balloons, The Seven Dwarfs

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I am not going to lie. I am sure there are many in agreement when I proclaim, it was a long and arduous journey; filled with travails and pitfalls. There were times when I thought the task of breathing new life into hounds long since off to the happy hunting grounds too mammoth; however,

if you will allow me licence to adapt the words of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill:

Never Give In
Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of dog days. These are not bark days; these are Great Danes - the greatest Danes our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these Danes memorable in the history of our race.


But like many a protagonist in many a tale, we have come full-circle, I feel I have deprived the Airedale Terrier, “Caesar” at the beginning of the thread some walkies. I will make this up to him. I shall track him down this very day and make amends, thus proving ere that, yes, diamonds are a girls, but dogs are a man’s…..

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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Gilliatt,
I saw on the news that a terrible tornado was kicking up dust over there in Texas. I do hope no one was hurt.
.....

What a gorgeous book Sir Gilliatt. Peppered with bookmarks! Classy.

There were some injuries, but fortunately there were no deaths as a result of the tornadoes.
Researchers are have determined that there were at least 12 confirmed tornadoes. Family and home are fine.

RE: The book - Glad you enjoyed it. Copyright is 1913.


Well, there we have it, The 101. May their names live in infamy, along with other such numerical legends as:

...



Congratulations. That was a good idea.

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