A Boy and His X: Difference between revisions

* ''A Boy and his 'Bot'' by Gary Thomas Washington.

* C.O.P.S. #5 centered on Bowser and his cyborg dog Blitz, and Bowser/Rex Pointer's memories of his first dog, Maxie.

 

== Fan Works ==

* The book ''A Kestrel for a Knave'' (adapted for film as ''Kes'') follows A Boy and His... well, you can guess, can't you? {{spoiler|It also falls prey (no pun intended) to [[Death by Newbery Medal]].}}

* ''The City and the Stars'': A Boy and His Noncorporeal Psychic Superintelligence from [[Precursors|Before Civilization Fell]]. But really, Hilvar is an adult with a penchant for strange pets. Nonetheless, his people are psychics, and that allowed him to make contact with Vanamonde.

** Very similarly to ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'', in Fredric R. Stewart's ''[[Cerberon]]'', the eponymous unicorn has been George's best friend his entire life. The novel opens with George clearly in command, but by the end it's Cerberon who is in charge. In a [[Shout-Out]] to [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]], Cerberon's mother is named Jewel, after the unicorn in [[The Last Battle]].

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Star Beast]]'': <s>A Boy and His Giant Talking Space Lizard</s> A Giant Talking Space Lizard and Her Boy.

** ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'': An Extragalactic Alien Peacekeeper and Her Two Wards.

* In one of [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Brentford'' stories Omally (always spelled without the apostrophe, for some reason) refuses to die without his faithful Marchant. Pooley [[Lampshade Hanging|comments,]] "A boy and his bike! I feel sick!"

* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has Jimmy and his mechanical canine, Goddard.

* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with ''Soccer Mummy'', a [[Show Within a Show|film within the show]] in which a reanimated Egyptian mummy joins a little league soccer team and teaches a young boy to believe in himself.

 

== Real Life ==

* Bradley Nowell of [[Sublime]] and Louie Dog, his dalmatian. Bradley wrote a song Lou Dog Went to the Moon. When Louie was stolen,Bradley was inconsolable. Literally, laid on his couch for about a week and cried. He sand Lou Dog Went to the Moon into his answering machine. There are several songs that mention Louie Dog, including: Doin Time, Garden Grove/Garbage Grove, and What I Got. Bradley missed Louie Dog so much he had flown to the East Coast on the original Warped Tour. When Louie Dog died, several years after Bradley, the family buried a phial of his ashes with Bradley, and scattered the rest at the same surf spot they scattered Bradley's. To this day the band, now dubbed Sublime with Rome sells Louie Dog shirts at concerts.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203203446/http://www.nylana.org/RRACI/hachiko.htm Hachiko] the dog earned fame in Japan for returning each day to the train station where his master last departed before dying. The Japanese people were so touched that they gave him a statue outside of Shibuya Station, exactly where he would sit.

 

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[[Category:Loyal Animal Companion]]

[[Category:Pet and Animal Companion Tropes]]

[[Category:Friendship Tropes]]

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