History Main / AllAnimalsAreDogs

* They are social and live in a nuclear family unit. (Note that there is [[AlphaAndBetaWolves no alpha or beta wolf nor a pack hierarchy.]] These theories were quickly debunked by the scientists who proposed them, but the myth persists. Probably due to humans themselves tending towards hierarchical social structure and therefore projecting their behaviors onto animals.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Nj_AmZAIs&feature=related This]] swimsuit ad portrays a man having a great white shark play fetch with an inflatable ball.

* The Amazon Creator/PrimeVideo ad "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMmjYIW_4tE An Unlikely Friendship]]" has a spotted hyena who can live happily indoors, eats dog food, wags its tail when happy, and snarls while baring its teeth when angry.

* PlayedWith in ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow''. Twilight Sparkle experiments with [[SwappedRoles swapping magic]] on some lab animals: a cat, a dog, a chicken, a mouse, a parakeet, and a beetle, and every one of them gets a chance to ''play'' the dog, when Twilight keeps swapping them into each other's roles.

** Justified in the case of Olaf, who frequently howls to communicate. The Season 2 premiere, "First Day", would reveal that [[spoiler:he is actually a werewolf, and he remains in his werewolf form for the rest of the series.]]

** "Who is Agent Otis?" has this trope PlayedForDrama, inverted, and invoked. It's revealed that [[spoiler:while Otis was still biologically a human being, he primarily acted like a duck since he was raised by a group of them from a young age. Eventually he grew old enough to understand how villainous his duck family was, and when he and Odd Squad foiled their EvilPlan, Ms. O took him in and trained him how to act like a human being.]] Over the course of Season 2, he acts completely human, and for good reason.
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'': Peacemaker's bald eagle [[ADogNamedDog Eagly]] sticks his head out of the car window like a dog. {{Zigzagged|Trope}} later on when Peacemaker is asked if Eagly is housetrained, and he scoffs at the idea of housetraining a bird of prey.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Khumba}}'' has at least one instance of a African wild dog howling. African wild dogs, despite their name, are a different species than the domestic dog or wolf and do not howl. They don't even sound close to domestic dogs or wolves, instead they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whh7mceEIGw make rather bizarre noises.]]

** Subverted in [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the first film]]. Nedry, trying to pull his jeep out of the mud, encounters a ''Dilophosaurus'', which he regards as nonthreatening and rather cute but stupid. He tries to throw a stick and play 'fetch' with her, but the dinosaur [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome does what any reptile or bird would do]]: she simply watches the stick fly away with mild interest, then turns back to Nedry. [[spoiler:Turns out she's not stupid -- she's hungry. [[KillerRabbit And she's a carnivore. Nedry was incorrect when he told the dinosaur that he had no food.]]]]

* Nana, Toto and Dodo from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' can all shake like dogs. Nana can also high five and ring bells while Toto happily plays fetch with the red ball.

** In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the queen ant has a pet aphid who acts just like a small dog. (This is a reference to the fact that some real life ants have domesticated aphids, but as this is to "milk" them for nectar, the aphid should probably be acting like a ''cow''.) There's also Thumper the attack grasshopper who acts like an angry guard

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'':

* Played with in ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow''. Twilight Sparkle experiments with [[SwappedRoles swapping magic]] on some lab animals: a cat, a dog, a chicken, a mouse, a parakeet, and a beetle, and every one of them gets a chance to ''play'' the dog, when Twilight keeps swapping them into each other's roles.

* Kyra's pet fox Rusty in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fic ''FanFic/{{Reconnected}}'' tends to act like a dog and, at times, a cat, often wagging his tail and barking.

* The highly venomous snake Zith in ''Literature/TheMalloreon'' readily befriends humans who stroke or feed her, purrs when happy, and shivers in cold weather. Also gives birth to live young, which though it sounds surprising, isn't as inaccurate as the rest. Quite a few snakes (many of them venomous; vipers got their name ''because'' of it) actually do give birth to live young.

* Fizzgig Jen's pet from ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', he barks, pants, and growls like a dog.

* Averted with the Canitheres from ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}''. Being tribbetheres, a clade of terrestrial, three-legged ''fish'', they evolved many traits highly convergent with mammals, such as erect limbs, a coat of hair modified from ancestral fish scales, and mobile ear pinnae derived from their gill covers. The canithere lineage, in particular, has evolved to become [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/0c179c95-0957-4392-987e-8c3acdcf3b56/dbg7mqn-32414c37-275f-4498-a2b2-6c151b2b46d8.png/v1/fill/w_1024,h_425,q_75,strp/chasingprey_by_sheather888-dbg7mqn.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwic3ViIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl0sIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi8wYzE3OWM5NS0wOTU3LTQzOTItOTg3ZS04YzNhY2RjZjNiNTYvZGJnN21xbi0zMjQxNGMzNy0yNzVmLTQ0OTgtYTJiMi02YzE1MWIyYjQ2ZDgucG5nIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEwMjQiLCJoZWlnaHQiOiI8PTQyNSJ9XV19.lDfi1g2NfTazXfcodzxvu3wqk0uUaV-WKVg4eUSh4GA very dog-like in appearance]], but notably not in behavior. Due to having simpler, more primitive brains, they are less playful as pups (most sibling interaction being competitive, like baby birds), they have less capacity for learning, most of their behaviors being instinctive, and their pack hunting is disorganized and mostly just a piranha-like ZergRush. The author compares their intellectual capacity with more primitive mammals, such as opossums.

* The ''tokage'' (lizards) are the [[FurryConfusion dog-equivalent species]] in the "[[FurryComic funny animal comic]]" ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', which is kind of odd since there's at least one ''actual'' dog (who's [[FurryConfusion owned by a panda]]).

* Donkey from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' is animated with a style of movement that combines traits from that of a dog and that of a donkey thanks to RuleOfFunny.

* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' has farm and construction equipment acting like cattle, miniature VW Beetles like insects, miniature aircraft and drones as birds, toy cars as dogs/cats/rodents, and model trains as snakes. This one is justified though, as actual animals don't exist in the setting.

** In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the queen ant has a pet aphid who acts just like a small dog. (This is a reference to the fact that some real life ants have domesticated aphids, but as this is to "milk" them for nectar, the aphid should probably be acting like a ''cow''.) There's also Thumper the attack grasshopper who acts like an angry guardFranchise/{{Cars}}'' has farm and construction equipment acting like cattle, miniature VW Beetles like insects, miniature aircraft and drones as birds, toy cars as dogs/cats/rodents, and model trains as snakes. This one is justified though, as actual animals don't exist in the setting.

** Speaking of domesticated non-wolf canines, check [[http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/07/identifying_fuegian_dogs.php this]]. Even though the ancestor species is fox like, the (now extinct, sadly) domesticated variety resembles far more your average terrier. Sadly, their extinction came from not having as many uses as a dog, and attacking livestock, so while it was successful for a time, eventually it had to end.
*** Except it only ended due to the invading people killing them all. The Fuegian Dogs' native owners would've still had and kept them if not for that.

** Subverted in [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]]. Nedry, trying to pull his jeep out of the mud, encounters a ''Dilophosaurus'', which he regards as nonthreatening and rather cute but stupid. He tries to throw a stick and play 'fetch' with her, but the dinosaur [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome does what any reptile or bird would do]]: she simply watches the stick fly away with mild interest, then turns back to Nedry. [[spoiler:Turns out she's not stupid -- she's hungry. [[KillerRabbit And she's a carnivore. Nedry was incorrect when he told the dinosaur that he had no food.]]]]

** In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the queen ant has a pet aphid who acts just like a small dog. (This is a reference to the fact that some real life ants have domesticated aphids, but as this is to "milk" them for nectar, the aphid should probably be acting like a ''cow''.) There's also Thumper the attack grasshopper who acts like an angry guard dog.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' has farm and construction equipment acting like cattle, miniature VW Beetles like insects, miniature aircraft and drones as birds, toy cars as dogs/cats/rodents, and model trains as snakes. This one is justified though, as actual animals don't exist in the setting.

* In ''Videogame/{{Okami}}'', you can make your character, the wolf god Amaterasu, bark like a dog on command. Real wolves rarely bark, and their barks are not the same as a dog bark, being different in both sound and function.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' from [[OneMillionBC Jurassic Marsh]] acts like a dog, sitting on all fours, sticking its tongue out and panting, and wagging its tail repeatedly. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBDZXE2W3LM Jurassic Marsh Part 2 Trailer]], it even "fetches" a missile launched by the world's boss.

** Maximus the horse in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' takes this trope to its logical extreme. He ''tracks Flynn by following his trail through scent.'' And there's the scene where Rapunzel wins Maximus over. The animators take it to such an extreme that they're obviously playing the whole thing for [[RuleOfFunny the funny]]. In early development, Maximus was a bloodhound, but they changed the species and kept the dog-like body language.