History Main / WerewolvesAreDogs

* ComicBook/MonicasGang: Lobi from the Bug-a-Boo stories -- which parody many classical cinema monsters -- is a werewolf who, DependingOnTheWriter, often has the behavior of a stereotypical friendly dog, such as going after bones, barking, and running away from baths.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29749635/chapters/73176138 Hatzgang Requests!]]'': In chapter 17, the werewolf the Hatzgang encounter behaves more akin to a big, angry dog, and is calmed when Robert clamps its mouth shut and scratches it behind the ears. It's due to this that the three don't even realize it ''wasn't'' a dog until the next full moon, where Roy transforms because he got bit by it; Roy himself acts like a frightened dog off a leash, and even barks in an attempt to communicate with Ross and Robert. After wrangling Roy, Robert compares him and the original werewolf -- who turns out to [[ADogNamedDog actually be named "Wolf"]] -- to actual dog breeds, with Roy being a Labradoodle and Wolf being a Samoyed.
* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/darkumbreon09/art/Fetch-the-Ball-668122048 this]] fan art for ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', Egon is transformed into a werewolf and when a tennis ball appears next to him, he is tempted to fetch it.

* ''Fanfic/LumityLycanthropy'': Werewolf Luz acts like a huge, ill-tempered dog - attacking people she doesn't recognize from her human form. She also tries to sniff Amity, licks her hand, and likes being petted.

* [[https://ask-theundeadhusbands.tumblr.com/ Ask the Undead Husbands]] gives [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Alfred F. Jones]] a few doglike traits, such as wagging his tail when happy, and there's also mention of him liking to volunteer at animal shelters and as a dog walker.

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'': PlayedWith: after getting bitten by a werewolf, Theodore likewise turns into a werewolf at night, and is initially as playful and curious as a young puppy. As time goes on, he begins getting a lot more ferocious both during the day and at night, and the worried Alvin and Simon scramble to find a cure before the curse becomes unbreakable.

* ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf'': PlayedWith. When cynical nerd Jordan Sands becomes infected with werewolf blood, during the day she becomes playful and excitable, has a keen sense of smell, plays with other dogs, and enjoys being outside (where her allergies stopped her from enjoying it before). But when fully transformed at night, she is much more vicious and wolflike. In addition, natural-born werewolves [[spoiler:like her brother and great-uncle]] are later revealed to be much more in control of their minds in both forms, averting the trope.

* Discussed at length in the Discworld Novel ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', which features a werewolf clan as its primary antagonists. Sam Vimes, as well as several other characters, all muse that since dogs are what humans made from wolves, it is impossible for a creature that is half-wolf and half-human not to have a little dog in it somewhere. This is played for laughs when various werewolves are seen to visibly cringe at the mention of a B-A-T-H, or the first syllable of the ruler of Ankh-Morpork's name (Lord '''Vet'''inari). Comes to a head in the climax when Vimes [[spoiler:dispatches Wolfgang Von Ubervald, who has been stuck in a sort of mid-transformation and is acting on instinct, by firing a FlareGun just over Wolfgang's head, causing the monstrous creature to jump up and catch it in his teeth]].
* One of the early ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books has a werewolf that turns out to be good and ends with the main character playing fetch with him.

* Literature/MercyThompson:
** The werewolves in the series have a tendency to act like dogs when surrounded by those unfamiliar with werewolves. It’s stated that have a WeirdnessCensor that influences people to see them as dogs unless they are already aware of werewolves.
** Mercy has done this quite a few times when in her coyote form in public. Sometimes she will wear a dog collar with Adam’s name on it just in case she is seen around a neighborhood. Blood Bound had a funny scene of Mercy playing fetch with some young boys until her “owner” came to pick her up.

* ''Series/BigTimeRush'': In "[[HalloweenEpisode Big Time Halloween]]", Kendall is a werewolf trying to keep his non-monster girlfriend, Jo, from learning about his werewolf status. When she tells him she knew the entire time, she points out how he does things like mark his territory, chase mailmen, and likes to play frisbee with her.

* In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode "Meet the Werewolves", Alex meets the parents of her boyfriend, Mason, who is a werewolf. They engage in activities like "finding the squeaky toy" and call themselves good boy/girl with a pat on the head when doing something good.
* In the ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode, "The Tale of the Full Moon", a boy suspects that his [[ParentWithNewParamour mom's new boyfriend]] is a werewolf. He ends up being wrong. The man is not a werewolf, but his identical twin brother ''is''! The boyfriend ends up coming clean about the whole situation to the boy's mother and hopes she can accept it. She does and the two end up getting married. As for the boy, he ends loving the fact that his new step-uncle is a werewolf because in a weird way, he got the dog he always wanted.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode, "All Dogs go to Heaven", shapeshifters are posing as dogs so they can then bite their owners and make them shifters as well. One shifter who wants no part of it has been hiding for an extended time as the dog of a mother and child.

%%* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': PlayedForLaughs; Warwick's joke emote has him sit excitedly with his tongue dangling out like he's about to get a treat.

** In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' it's possible to give belly rubs and play fetch with werewolf sims.

* ''Webcomic/VampireHusband'': Charles and Cheryl's neighbor, Bob, is a werewolf but acts exactly like a big dog, including wagging is tag when he's happy. Cheryl actually mistook him for a domesticated dog at first, before Charles corrected her.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "Operation: H.O.U.N.D." and its continuation "Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E.", the antagonist is Valerie, a werepoodle that ate Numbuh 5's homework to disqualify her as an honor roll student, and [[spoiler:Mrs. Thompson, Numbuh 5's homeroom teacher]] who leads Valerie and the other weredogs as their queen. A literal example of ADogAteMyHomework, the weredogs eat the homework of other students as food, with bad homework being poison to all of them except the queen.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Tween Wolf", Irwin turns into a werewolf; Billy ends up adopting him (naming him "Sprinkles") and enters him into a dog show.

* ''VideoGame/BalaceraBrothers'' have a werewolf boss guarding the entrance of the Demon Lord Nugnur's crypt, acting like a guard dog.

** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', one of the horror movies your sims can watch is about a werewolf. The heroine distracts it from mauling her by [[{{Foreshadowing}} playing fetch with it]].