History Main / AnimalChickMagnet

* After noticing that the women around him all liked birds, Jon of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' slammed an ice cream cone into Garfield's face to look like a beak, and asked a passerby if she wanted to pet his parrot. (She asked if it talked, and the strip ended with Garfield thinking "The stories I could tell, lady.")

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2010/ga100214.gif While on a date]], Liz discovers that Jon keeps a picture of Garfield when he was young in his wallet, and becomes enamored enough to cover him with many kisses. Justified, considering that Liz ''is'' a vet.

* ''RoadRules'' season 7 "Latin America": Abe Ingersoll used Menudo, the group's pet Chihuahua, to meet girls.

* [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] tried a form of this when he sees two girls giving attention to a [[CutenessProximity cute dog]] and turns into a dog hoping for the same treatment. However, since his dog form is [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green]] and smells like old pizza, he didn't get the intended response.

* Actor [[Series/TheWire Michael]] [[Series/BoardwalkEmpire Kenneth]] [[TrappedInTheCloset Williams]] has a mini pinscher named Brooklyn, who he once identified in an interview as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urihXynadfg "a lady-magnet"]].

* An ad for... [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain something]] ... oh, yeah, Mike's Hard Lemonade, has some men running a beagle puppy rental booth for this purpose.

* ''WillAndGrace'', Jack used Will's dog to pick up guys.
* One episode of ''TopGear'' had Hammond doing an experiment regarding which was a better "girl magnet", a flashy sports car or a retriever puppy (named [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Killer]]). The puppy won by a mile. All who approached fell under the spell of the CutenessProximity and didn't even notice the car.

* After noticing that the women around him all liked birds, Jon of ''{{Garfield}}'' slammed an ice cream cone into Garfield's face to look like a beak, and asked a passerby if she wanted to pet his parrot. (She asked if it talked, and the strip ended with Garfield thinking "The stories I could tell, lady.")

* JohnnyBravo tries this by buying an emu. Goes about as well as expected.

* Gender-flipped in the ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Mispercieved Monotreme", where Candace appropriates her brothers' pet platypus after her crush Jeremy mentions that "you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat animals" and invites her to his charity pet-wash.

* Actor [[TheWire Michael]] [[BoardwalkEmpire Kenneth]] [[TrappedInTheCloset Williams]] has a mini pinscher named Brooklyn, who he once identified in an interview as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urihXynadfg "a lady-magnet"]].

* [[TeenTitans Beast Boy]] tried a form of this when he sees two girls giving attention to a [[CutenessProximity cute dog]] and turns into a dog hoping for the same treatment. However, since his dog form is [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green]] and smells like old pizza, he didn't get the intended response.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Barney harnesses the power of a ridiculously cute teapot pig to get women into his apartment.

* [[TeenTitans Beast Boy]] tried a form of this when he sees two girls giving attention a [[CutenessProximity cute dog]] and turns into a dog hoping for the same treatment. However, since his dog form is [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green]] and smells like old pizza, he didn't get the intended response.

* An ad for... [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain something]] (Captain Morgan's rum maybe?) has some men running a beagle puppy rental booth for this purpose.
** The product was Mike's Hard Lemonade.

* One episode of ''TopGear'' had Hammond doing an experiment regarding which was a better "girl magnet", a flashy sports car or a retriever puppy (named [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Killer]]). The puppy won by a mile. All who approached fell under the spell of the Cuteness Proximity and didn't even notice the car.

* This kind of thing happens often enough in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''.

* ''HowIMetYourMother'': Barney harnesses the power of a ridiculously cute teapot pig to get women into his apartment.

* An ad for...something (Captain Morgan's rum maybe?) has some men running a beagle puppy rental booth for this purpose.

* In an episode of AmericanDad, Steve wants to get a dog for this purpose. His dad brings him home an old, weak, dying, 20-year old dog. Steve reluctantly takes it, and gets mocked by some passing girls. However, he sees this as a positive since a girl "noticed him".

* This kind of thing happens often enough in ''{{Pokemon}}''.

* This kind of thing happens often enough in ''[=~Pokémon~=]''.