History Main / TributeToFido

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010: Invasion'':
** Wally and Artemis adopt a sleepy white pit bull. According to the producers and Stephanie Lemelin, Artemis' voice actor, he's explicitly modeled after her own sleepy white pit bull, Bruceley. When asked what the dog's name was, Creator/GregWeisman answered "I want to say Bruceley." And once the show was UnCancelled, Bruceley became the canon name of the dog.

* ''VideoGame/PaleoPines'': [[https://twitter.com/PaleoPines/status/1738259845524939258 An update in December 2023]] added a black and white colour scheme for ''Gallimimus'' and ''Oviraptor'' called "Boz", based on lossayyy's dog Ozzie.

A beagle is seen in several episodes of

* Bob the cat plays himself in the film ''A Street Cat Named Bob'', based on the book of the same name.

* Creator/KentaroYabuki has long used a white cat as an AuthorAvatar, and likely because of that [[https://twitter.com/yabuki_info/status/1410161192929095682 has a white cat named "Mochi"]]. Not only is one of the main characters of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' the white cat spirit Shirogane, Mochi himself often appears on the inside covers of the manga's collected volumes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010: Invasion'', Wally and Artemis have adopted a sleepy white pit bull. According to the producers and Stephanie Lemelin, Artemis' voice actor, he's explicitly modeled after her own sleepy white pit bull, Bruceley. When asked what the dog's name was, Creator/GregWeisman answered "I want to say Bruceley." And once the show was UnCancelled, Bruceley became the canon name of the dog.
** A second instance of the trope happens in season 4 when Beast Boy, recovering from the traumas in his life, unveiled a therapy dog named Wingman, based on a dog that is frequently seen with his voice actor Creator/GregCipes.

* A beagle is seen in several episodes of ''Series/GoodEats''. That beagle actually is Alton Brown's RealLife pet dog.
** And in ''Good Eats: The Return'', a French bulldog sometimes appears. The beagle passed away in the years between the end of the original and the {{Reboot}}, and Alton got himself a new dog.

** In MINECON Earth 2018, Jeb announced that the community could vote for a 9th cat skin to be added with the rest of the other 8 cat skins.[[note]]Technically speaking, cats were already in the game but only as tamed ocelots, and cats only had three textures -- Siamese, tuxedo, or orange tabby; in the 1.14 update, the two were split into separate mobs and six more cat textures were added, with one of them being voted in by the community.[[/note]] Ultimately, [[LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer GoodTimesWithScar's]] cat Jellie won the contest and was added in the 1.14 "Village & Pillage" update. On a related note, ever since her addition to the game, Scar the content creator has sought out her incarnation in just about every Minecraft series he has, so she can continue to accompany him in the blocky world as well as the real world.

* Laila, a Russian dog who became the first animal in space, inspired a few examples:

* Creator/AkiraToriyama based both major cat characters in the Manga/DragonBall franchise on his pet cats, Korin was based on his Persian cat and Beerus the god of destruction was based on his Sphinx cat Deco.