Famous Pooches

Blair In 1905, Blair was the first canine movie star and was featured in "Rescued by Rover". Blair was a Collie owned by the movies director and an actor in the movie, Cecil Hepworth. It was a British film where a baby is kidnapped by an old beggar woman, but the faithful family dog Rover comes to its rescue.

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The name Rover, uncommon until then, became popular. Lassie - The Lassie Network Lassie is undoubtedly the world's most famous dog and is a character who has starred in many movies, TV shows, and books over the years. Lassie was created by Eric Knight and published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and as a novel in 1940. All of the "Lassie's" were male view full picture of Lassie Come Home with Roddy McDowall collies and all the official Lassies are descendents of the original Lassie. Rin Tin Tin - Official Site The nation’s first canine movie star. Born in Germany, he was rescued from the trenches as a puppy and brought to the United States by Lee Duncan, an American pilot in World War I, who was also his trainer. view full picture First appearing in “Where The North Begins” in 1925, Rin Tin Tin went on to make 25 movies, sign his own contracts with a paw print, and at the height of his success was his studio’s major wage earner, earning approx. 5 Million Dollars. . Eddie - (from Paramount TV ) Moose, a Jack Russell Terrier, portrays Eddie in the hit comedy series FRASIER. Eddie is Martin's faithful companion and partner in crime. Having graced the covers of such notable publications as Life, TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, as well as joining the ranks of Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland with his own calendar. view full picture with Frasier and Niles Spuds MacKenzie The original party animal, he made his debut in a Bud Light beer commercial during the Super Bowl in 1987. Spuds, who was also a senior party consultant for the Anheuser-Busch Company, had a black circle around one eye. He became a hit almost overnight. Spuds was water skiing, skateboarding, lounging by a pool with beautiful women or something else equally glamorous. view larger picture His likeness appeared on T-shirts, sweaters, mugs, posters and stuffed animals, outdoing other popular characters of the time, including ALF and Max Headroom. Ch. Bolero Dolce Sinfonia He is not only a great top winner and champion, but he is definitely a Star. Of all the show dogs in the world, he was the one recently used by Eukanuba dog food, filming in Hollywood for one or more of their advertisements (Saatche & Saatche of New York). view larger picture of this movie star driving his Ferrari He is the model used by some dog fashion companies, and is going to be seen in posters and more advertising programs by Eukanuba and others. Skippy A wire-hair terrier, Skippy starred in the first four "The Thin Man" series and well known movies in the 1930's like "Topper Takes a Trip" as Mr. Atlas, "Bringing Up Baby" as George, and "The Awful Truth" as Mr. Smith. view larger picture Underdog - Info from Toon Tracker He was a super-canine who talked in rhymes, and was the alter-identity of Shoeshine Boy. He was usually called into action by his girlfriend and ace TV reporter Sweet Polly Purebred by saying "Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone?". The TV show debuted on October 3, 1964, on the NBC network and continued until 1973. view larger picture Petey He was a white American Pit Bull Terrier with a ring around one eye, and played alongside a lovable bunch of kids called 'The Little Rascals' in the Our Gang Television Series. The American Staffordshire Terrier is an AKC registered breed, while the APBT is not. The ring around Petey's view full pic from The Little Rascals eye was actually drawn on, which is why it changed from one side to the next between seasons of the TV show. Laika The first living creature to orbit the earth was a dog. Named Laika(barker in Russian) she blasted off aboard the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957. With no way to bring her back to earth, she became the first creature to give her life for the exploration of space. Onion (Official Website) Onion is a miniature bull terrier that's only two years old. She's in the new Ewan McGregor movie called 'Scenes of a Sexual Nature', due out November 2006, was also in a pop promo for the Norwegian band A-ha!, and earned a Gold Good Citizen Award. She is immortalized in a painting, she's the subject of a range of line drawings, and has even been sculpted.