History Main / WhatHappenedToThePet

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Then, unexpectedly, they mention the dog. Apparently he ran away a long time ago, or maybe was killed. The FridgeHorror sets in as you realize that Bob didn't even mention, much less mourn, the loss of his pet.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' pets (like Stan's dog Sparky or Cartman's cat Mr. Kitty) have a tendency to disappear for whole seasons at a time, but reappear if needed for a plotline or joke.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Sandy's Rocket", Mr. Krabs is seen walking a pet worm, which makes a second appearance in "As Seen on TV" but then never appears after that.
** In "The Great Snail Race", Squidward has a snail named Snelly that he enters in a race, setting off the plot. After that, Snelly is never heard of again.
** "Plankton's Pet" introduces a pet amoeba named Spot for Plankton. It doesn't appear again until two seasons later.

Contrast BrotherChuck, in which no explanation is given.

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--> '''Dawn:''' I told you, I don’t leave crossbows around all willy-nilly...not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.
* On ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' the sisters had a cat named Kit, but after the first season or so the studio no longer had the animal. They covered with green screens and stock footage, but eventually stopped. Years later Kit returns [[spoiler:as a human, having been rewarded for her work as the sisters' familiar]].

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* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in three episodes. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by an accident. It's not explicitly stated that the cat is dead, though, and the wording could be interpreted a number of ways.

** In "Sandy's Rocket", Mr. Krabs is seen walking a pet worm, which never appears after that.

* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in three episodes. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by an accident.

* In ''Series/EverybodylovesRaymond'', Robert's pet bulldog Chamsky has a whole episode devoted to him explaining how he arrived and how he cost Ray nearly two thousand dollars. After this big build-up Chamsky the bulldog appears in maybe two more episodes and then nothing more is seen or heard.

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* On ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' the sisters had a cat named Kit, but after the first season or so the studio no longer had the animal. They covered with green screens and stock footage, but eventually stopped. Years later Kit returns [[spoiler:as a human, having been rewarded for her work as the sisters' familiar]].
* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in three episodes. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by an accident.
--> '''Dawn:''' I told you, I don’t leave crossbows around all willy-nilly...not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.
* Joey and Chandler's duck and chicken from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. In the series finale, it is implied that they died and Joey was told that they were "sent to a farm."

* On ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' Max at one point admits that everything about the the wizarding world is true, "except for the Dragon Dog! I have no idea what happened to him!" The episode the dragon dog appears the Russos jump through some serious hoops to keep that little puppy-dragon. And then he disappears. And then all we get is Max's lampshade hanging.
* {{Averted}} in ''SomethingPositive:'' WordOfGod says that the original plan was that Davan would (reluctantly) adopt Choo-Choo Bear, who would then disappear for years until a dark BrickJoke where they discover his corpse behind the sofa or something. Perhaps due to his [[EnsembleDarkhorse popularity]], he's remained a part of the cast, even though he should be pushing forty by now.
* ''InvaderZim'' has a variant: in one of his [[HandsOffParenting possibly-prerecorded messages]] to his children, [[ReluctantMadScientist Professor Membrane]] reminds them to feed the dog. This reminds the pair that hey, they used to have a dog, didn't they? and they take a minute to look around in confusion. The viewers, however, never heard of it before.
* ''SouthPark'' pets (like Stan's dog Sparky or Cartman's cat Mr. Kitty) have a tendency to disappear for whole seasons at a time, but reappear if needed for a plotline or joke.

--> '''Dawn:''' I told you, I don’t leave crossbows around all willy-nilly...mot since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.

* {{Averted}} in ''SomethingPositive:'' WordOfGod says that the original plan was that Davan would (reluctantly) adopt Choo-Choo Bear, who would then disappear for years until a dark BrickJoke where they discover his corpse behind the sofa or something. Perhaps due to his [[EnsembleDarkhorse popularity]], he's remained a part of the cast, even though he should be pushing forty by now.

* {{Averted}} in ''SomethingPositive:'' WordOfGod says that the original plan was that Davan would (reluctantly) adopt Choo-Choo Bear, who would then disappear for years until a dark BrickJoke where they discover his corpse behind the sofa or something.

* Kit the cat from ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' apparently ran away at some point, and despite her being the Halliwell sisters' familiar, they didn't comment on it.

--> Dawn: I told you, I don’t leave crossbows around all willy-nilly… Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.
* Joey and Chandler's duck and chicken from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. In the series finale, it is implied that they died and Joey was told that they were "sent to a farm".

* On ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' Max at one point admits that everything about the the wizarding world is true, "except for the Dragon Dog! I have no idea what happened to him!" The episode the dragon dog appears the Russos jump through some serious hoops to keep that little puppy-dragon. And then he disappears. And then all we get is Max's lampshade hanging.

* Joey and Chandler's duck and chicken from ''{{Friends}}''. In the series finale, it is implied that they died and Joey was told that they were "sent to a farm".
* In the TomClancy novel ''[[Literature/JackRyan Patriot Games]]'', Jack got his daughter a Labrador named Ernie. It does not appear in any later book, though a comment in ''Red Rabbit'', the next book in chronological (If not publication) order, implied that the dog stayed in America when the Ryan family moved to London for a year or so. No explanation is given for why they aren't reunited with the dog when they moved back to Annapolis.

* On ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in three episodes. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by an accident.

-> Dawn: I told you, I don’t leave crossbows around all willy-nilly… Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.

* In the TomClancy novel ''Patriot Games'', Jack got his daughter a Labrador named Ernie. It does not appear in any later book, though a comment in ''Red Rabbit'', the next book in chronological (If not publication) order, implied that the dog stayed in America when the Ryan family moved to London for a year or so. No explanation is given for why they aren't reunited with the dog when they moved back to Annapolis.
* On WizardsofWaverlyPlace Max at one point admits that everything about the the wizarding world is true, "except for the Dragon Dog! I have no idea what happened to him!" The episode the dragon dog appears the Russos jump through some serious hoops to keep that little puppy-dragon. And then he disappears. And then all we get is Max's lampshade hanging.

* Kit the cat from ''{{Charmed}}'' apparently ran away at some point, and despite her being the Halliwell sisters' familiar, they didn't comment on it.

* In the TomClancy novel ''Patriot Games'', Jack got his daughter a Labrador named Ernie. It does not appear in any later book, though a comment in ''Red Rabbit'', the next book in chronological (If not publication) order, implied that the dog stayed in America when the Ryan family moved to London for a year or so. No explanation is given for why they aren't reunited with the dog when they moved back to Annapolis.

* Joey and Chandler's duck and chicken from ''{{Friends}}''. In the series finale, it is implied that they died and Joey was told that they were "sent to a farm".

* On ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in three episodes. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by a magical accident.
** A magical accident?

* Kit the cat from {{Charmed}} apparently ran away at some point, and despite her being the Halliwell sisters' familiar, they didn't comment on it.
* On {{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}, Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in three episodes. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by a magical accident.

* On {{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}, Willow and Tara got a kitten, who was only seen in one episode. An off-hand comment much later on suggests that this kitten was killed off-screen by a magical accident.