Fictional dogs in prose and poetry:
- Buck, in Jack London's The Call of the Wild
- Bull's-eye, Bill Sikes' dog in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Ripper, Marjorie Dursley's pet dog in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Jip (short for Gypsy), Dora Spenlow's spaniel in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
- Jip, resident in the household of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle
- Baleia, the dog-companion that follows a poor family throughout the hardships of the 1915-drought in Brazil in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos
- Quincas Borba, the dog whose name is the same as his human's in Machado de Assis' Quincas Borba
- Tentação, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Clarice Lispector
- Pingo de Ouro, Miguilim's companion in the novella Campo Geral, by João Guimarães Rosa
- Biruta, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Lygia Fagundes Telles
- Bruno Lichtenstein, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Rubem Braga
- Toto, Dorothy's dog in The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
- Sharik, the astray dog who undergoes a transformation surgery in Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Mr. Bones, the companion dog in Timbuktu, by Paul Auster
- Randolph, a Labrador retriever and the narrator of A Dog About Town, by JF Englert