The Top 10 Most Famous Dogs (part 5) From Santa's Little Helper To Wishbone

I've been compiling a list of famous dogs for my Pet Numerology website for some time now

. I know which my favorites are, but I wondered which are the most famous overall. There are so many great famous dogs that I'm doing this in five groups, and then I'll do a final round with the top dogs from those groups.

The most famous dogs (based on online chatter) with names starting with the letters S to Z are:

10. Old Yeller from classic "Old Yeller" books and movies

9. Toto the Cairn Terrier from the "Wizard of Oz" movie and books

8. Wishbone the Jack Russell Terrier from the PBS TV series "Wishbone"

7. Tramp from the Disney animated movie "Lady and the Tramp"

6. Underdog from the classic "Underdog" cartoons

5. Tinkerbell who is Paris Hilton's Chihuahua

4. Snoopy the Beagle from the "Peanuts" comic strip

3. Snowy the White Wire Fox Terrier in "Adventures of Tintin" comic books

2. Santa's Little Helper the Greyhound from animated TV series "Ths Simpsons"

...and the most famous dog on this list is...

1. Scooby Doo from the "Scooby-Doo" cartoons and movies

Dogs not ranking in the top 10 were Sadie who is Oprah Winfrey's cocker spaniel, Sandy from "Little Orphan Annie" cartoons and the play, Satchel from the comic strip "Get Fuzzy", Solomon was is Oprah Winfrey's cocker spaniel, Sophie was is Oprah Winfrey's cocker spaniel, Sparky from the animated tv series "South Park", Spike who is Snoopy's brother in the comic strip "Peanuts", Splash who was US Senator Ted Kennedy's Portuguese Water Dog, Spuds MacKenzie the Bull Terrier from Budweiser advertisements in the 1980s, Strelka how was a Soviet Space dog, Sumo the Maltese Bichon terrier who belonged to Former French President Jacques Chirac, Tiger from the 1970s TV series "The Brady Bunch", Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (a puppet) from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Winnie who is "Girl Next Door" Bridget Marquardt's Pekingese, Wellard the Belgian Tervuren from the BBC series EastEnders, Woofie from the "Mutts" comic strip, Zero the ghost dog from the movie "Nightmare Before Christmas", and Zuul the dog demons from the movie "Ghostbusters".

So a nice mix of dogs in this top ten from movies (Tramp, Toto, Old Yeller), television (Scooby Doo, Santa's Little Helper, Underdog, Wishbone), comics (Snowy, Snoopy), and real life (Tinkerbell).

I was fairly surprised by the order of the top five. I was sure that Snoopy would be in the number one spot. Instead Scooby Doo, Santas Little Helper, and Snowy were all above Snoopy. I was also surprised to see Tinkerbell in the top 10, but I guess that just proves you should never doubt Paris Hilton's ability to generate publicity.

Not surprisingly, nine of the top ten dogs are characters and not real life dogs, with only Tinkerbell being an actual living dog. It's a shame that those brave Soviet Space dog pioneers aren't better know, so I'll mention Strelka one more time.

I compiled this list by searching for the dog names listed on a number of search engines and ranking them by the number of web pages, discussion forums, photos, videos, etc that are available online.

by: Larry Truett

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