Dogs in Literature

Dog names used in literature. My favorites are Pilot and Toto. Share your favorites in the comments!

Addison - Peculiar dog in Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Argos - Dog owned by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey
Blue - From The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Buck - Dog that is the main character of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
Bulls-eye - Bill Sikes' vicious dog in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Cavall - King Arthur's dog, sometimes called Cabal or Cafall
Crab - Launce's Dog in Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare.
Cujo - Main character in Stephen King's Cujo. He was a St. Bernard.
Dingo - Dog in Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen, by Jules Verne
Diogenes - Dog in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Einstein - Golden Retreiver from Watchers by Dean Koontz
Fang - Mastiff owned by Hagrid in the Harry Potter series.
Fluffy - A Cerberus owned by Hagrif in the Harry Potter Series.
Gaspode - From Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Gyp - From Adam Bede by George Eliot
Huan - Wolfhound from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jip - From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Kazak - Kurt Vonnegut used this name for a dog in two of his novels, The Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions
Kiche - a wolfdog in White Fang by Jack London
Laddie - From Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Laska - Levin's hunting dog in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Mouse - Harry's dog in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Nana - Newfoundland from Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Pilot - Rochester's dog in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Snowy - Tintin's wire fox terrier in The Adventures of Tintin
Toto - Dorothy's dog in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
White Fang - Dog in Jack London's White Fang
Woola - Martian 'hound' in A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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