History Analysis / DogStereotype

* Rita from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' is TheChick of the main group.

* Averted with the titular WesternAnimation/MrPickles, who's a Border Collie {{Hellhound}} VillainProtagonist.

* The Beagle Boys in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse are {{Card Carrying Villain}}s with {{Dogfaces}} resembling those of beagles. Averted with their leader Ma Beagle, who's a female beagle and is as much as villainous.

* The Beagle Boys in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse are {{Card Carrying Villain}}s with {{Dogfaces}} resembling those of beagles.

* The eponymous Hound in many live-action adaptations ''LIterature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' is a Great Dane trained to emulate the {{Hellhound}} traits and to murder the Baskerville family members.

* Captain Archer from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' owns a male Beagle named :

* ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' and [[WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound the film loosely based on it]] have contrasting takes on a brown dog. In both cases, Copper is a protagonist, but his book incarnation is a bloodhound-mix and his portrayal leans heavily on the fact that he's a ''dog'' and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality doesn't have the same perspective or morals that a human would]], to the point that he comes across as a VillainProtagonist to some readers. The Disney version of Copper, a purebred bloodhound, is instead a more straightforwardly heroic hound who is childhood friends with the titular fox, Tod.

* Luath, one of the protagonists in ''Literature/TheIncredibleJourney.'' He is a reddish-gold Labrador who also the average pet like his two companions who are trying to make it across the country in the wilderness to find their humans. ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'' and [[Film/HomewardBoundIILostInSanFrancisco it's sequel]] has Shadow, the wise and noble reddish-gold Golden Retriever.
* Copper, a brown bloodhound-mix OldDog, is one of the two [[EvilVersusEvil hostile-to-each-other]] {{Villain Protagonist}}s in the ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' novel. His [[WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound Disney animated counterpart]], like his fox counterpart Todd, received AdaptationalHeroism and becomes a HeroicDog who's instead childhood friends with the same fox.

* Copper, a brown bloodhound-mix OldDog, is one of the two [[EvilVersusEvil hostile-to-each-other]] {{Villain Protagonist}}s in the ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' novel. His [[WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound Disney counterpart]], like his fox counterpart Todd, received AdaptationalHeroism and becomes a HeroicDog who's instead childhood friends with the same fox.

* Papi and Chloe from ''Film/BeverlyHillsChihuahua''.

* Luath, one of the protagonists in ''Literature/TheIncredibleJourney.'' He is a reddish-gold Labrador who also the average pet like his two companions who are trying to make it across the country in the wilderness to find their humans. ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'' and [[''Film/HomewardBoundIILostInSanFrancisco it's sequel]] has Shadow, the wise and noble reddish-gold Golden Retriever.

Often portrayed as an average Joe, a mutt, on the side of good, or protagonist dog. More often male.

* The most common dog in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' is a Beagle whose CanonName is "Koro". His gender is [[AmbiguousGender rarely stated in-series]] but he's meant to be male.

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* Everest from ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'' is a Husky puppy who lives in the snowy mountain and uses a snowmobile to clear snow blocking the way.
* Maya, the pack leader from ''Film/EightBelow.''
* Jenna in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' is a fluffy red and white husky who wears an orange bandanna around her neck.

* ''Franchise/{{Lassie}}''.

''Literature/ADogsPurpose'': The main protagonist begins his first life as a stray mutt on the streets with his siblings and mother until they are captured and taken in by a kind woman who takes care of them in a big open yard. Somewhat Averted in the sequel, when he is [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] as a Cocker Spaniel/Poodle mix, his gender is revealed to be female. As mentioned before, both Poodles and Spaniels are usually stereotyped as female breeds.

* Averted in ''Literature/ADogsWayHome''. The narrator, Bella, is a female Pitbull/Staffordshire Terrier, breaking the stereotype that these breeds are always male.

* Rita from ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' is TheChick of the main group.

* Lady from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' is a female English Cocker Spaniel. Her Cocker-looking daughters from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure'' should look like mutts but inherited her Cocker Spaniel looks. Zigzagged in the earlier ''ComicStrip/{{Scamp}}'', where one of the puppies is male.

* Averted with Nana from Disney's ''Disney/PeterPan'' as she is female and doesn't really play to her breed's stereotypes apart from being friendly.

* Tramp from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' is a wire haired mutt. In the [[Disney/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure sequel movie]] his only son is the one who looks like a mix, though his daughters are technically mixed breeds despite looking like purebred Cocker Spaniels. The ''ComicStrip/{{Scamp}}'' comic that predates the sequel averts this by having one of the Cocker-looking puppies be male.

* Dodger from ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' is a street-smart mutt who looks like he might have some terrier in him.

* Roscoe and De Soto from ''Disney/OliverAndCompany.''

* Percy, the high-class spoiled Pug from ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''.

* The titular character of ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' is ([[InformedSpecies supposedly]]) a White Shepherd.

* Pongo, Perdita and their puppies from ''Disney/101Dalmatians.

* Cerberus, the three-headed Hell Hound is portrayed as black in ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''

* The Doberman Pinchers in ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'', Rosco and Desoto, are Sykes' Right Hand Attack Dogs.

* The titular dog of ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' is a naive, but heroic white German Shepard.

* Dixie from ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound2'' is a female Spaniel who also wears a bow. She is a singer in a band of stray dogs.

* Sunshine from ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'' is a SpoiledSweet female Maltese.

* Percy, the high-class spoiled Pug from ''{{Disney}}/Pocahontas''.
* Frank the Pug from the ''Film/MenInBlack'' series.

''Literature/ADogsPurpose: The main protagonist begins his first life as a stray mutt on the streets with his siblings and mother until they are captured and taken in by a kind woman who takes care of them in a big open yard. Somewhat Averted in the sequel, when he is [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] as a Cocker Spaniel/Poodle mix, his gender is revealed to be female. As mentioned before, both Poodles and Spaniels are usually stereotyped as female breeds.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pluto}} is a yellow-orange Bloodhound with black ears. He also has the iconic large wisdom bump on his head that Bloodhounds are known to have.